Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them

Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.