A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

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.

Wolves, and stars, and snow: Those things made sense.

It's okay to be happy.

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.

Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.