Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

When making a deal with the Devil – Haggle.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

I don't want to leave my successor and my children to pay for France's debt.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

The universe is a giant perceptual matrix. It perceives itself through its substance

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.