Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.

The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

I exercise strong self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you.

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

It is the white man who creates the Negro. But it is the negro who creates negritude.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.

The sound of life has divine silence.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

I will continue to be intelligent, I vowed, no matter how beautiful I become.

I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.