She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain