Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency.

A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

I hate when someone drives my car and resets all the radio presets. I don't understand it. If I was ever driving someone's car, I would never touch the things that were set.

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

No politician is perfect. But in every election in your life, there will be one choice that is better than the others. Go out and vote for that one.

The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.

We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.

Acceptance of the bit happens in the haunches, not in the mouth.

New habits can be launched.