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.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

We are all blessed, but there are people who have special favor and grace with God

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.

I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see.

Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand.

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait.

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.