We are all citizens of history.

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.

When we change our thoughts, we will change our experiences.

Give while your hands are warm

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy of you, then the calamity is doubled.

I have been criticized and ridiculed for turning to astrology, but after a while, I reached the point where I didn't care.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Finesse is the best adaptation of means to circumstances.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.