Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.

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.

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Nature is sound in many forms and states of existence.

Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.

You'll never get to be a saint if you deny the bit of the devil in you.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

Then everyone can call you Six.” “Four and Six,” I say.

I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.