War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

... a war always ends.

Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.

Write a page a day. It will add up.

This is an excellent martini — sort of tastes like it isn't there at all, just a cold cloud.