Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.