A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Mindfulness does not erase negative memories

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

The presence of God calms the soul, and gives it quiet and repose.

Conditioning is my best weapon.

You need to feel good about your life. Winning is a great idea, but you can get stuck in it too. It's just another way of looking at life, an idea. You need to renew yourself and your spirit.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

I am not big on jewelry, but I do love hats as an accessory, specifically snap backs and beanies.

We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.