There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

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.

No one can be managed or led, people are inspired and cared for.

The idea is to make the ingredients sing, not a grand opera, but a jolly chanson.

It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

I love my job and I think my job is hard, but also, my job is such a privilege.

Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.