I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the end.

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Not only does one drink champagne, but one inhales it, one looks at it, one swallows it ...And one drinks it.

It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you don't frighten the horses.

There are no frictions between us, there is only rivalry.

Wine is not only a drinking: it is sniffing, observing, tasting, or sipping at and... talking about

Music heals all forms of misery

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

lie can run but they can’t hide

To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

I don't think about wealth. I get one thing in my mind, "How can I help people...come on humans...do something, you know. Let's wake up. Man alive...you're half dead. Let's do some living".

Every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.