In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

The feasant hens of Colchis, which have two ears as it were consisting of feathers, which they will set up and lay down as they list.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

In wine, there's truth.

Men were born to protect and love, and our women help us to serve a higher purpose.

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.