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

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.

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

I'm an anti-industrial kind of guy.

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.

Don't let the day go by without a handful of fun, for only those we'll be memorable and even intensified through time

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of all is that there are paradoxes in mathematics.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.

When you become a parent, you look at your parents differently. You look at being a child differently. It's an awakening, a revelation that you have.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.