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

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.

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.

Let's do everything that we can, and let the good Lord do everything else that we can't.

Her heart was leading her where it belonged. To him.

Developing your emotional intelligence will allow you to explore new depths of understanding in yourself and others.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

All power that anyone can possibly use is within, waiting to be made visible, first by recognizing it, then affirming it as ours.

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.