"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."

"To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house."

"I have a suspicion that the definition of 'crazy' in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore."

"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end."

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."

"Music lives in three tenses at once. Developing what comes before it in the past, it engages us in the present, and inspires our hopes for its future."

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense."

"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."

"Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ."

"Art can't hurt you."

"Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood."