I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.

I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

These are the people who do studies that your carry-out Chinese meals are saturated in fat. I'd just like to meet them! I mean, what do they do for pleasure?

The finest glasses for both technical and hedonistic purposes are those made by Riedel. The effect of these glasses on fine wine is profound. I cannot emphasize enough what a difference they make.

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

I'm a common-sense kind of guy.

Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind.

You forget, my good man, that what the artist perceives is, primarily, the difference between things. It is the vulgar who note their resemblance.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.

When I hear Hillary Clinton talking about what she is planning to do, why hasn't she done it for the last 30 years?

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.

God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what he will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Everything's going to end eventually. I don't know if we're rushing it or making it faster.