My mother is quite the character. You'd hate her. Sometimes I think I hate her too, but mainly I feel sorry for her. Which is kind of worse.

Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.

The human heart isn't meant to be caged by someone who doesn't feed it.

Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.

Love isn't a choice. I can't control how I feel about him any more than I can control the sun in the sky. But what I can do is control what I do with those feelings.

To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

We are forever surrounded by ash. But we are fire. And fire rises.

Every day holds infinite opportunities. Explore!

How could I, who loved life so intensely, have let myself be entangled for so long in that balderdash of books and paper blackened with ink!

I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

If the right thing came along at the right time, it would be an enormous kind of challenge.

Make someone happy, Make just one someone happy, And you will be happy, too.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.