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

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.

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.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

When everything gets too much, give some away

You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two is to be yourself and be a difference-maker.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Believing that fundamental conditions of the country are sound ... my son and I have for some days been purchasing sound common stocks

The way Gansey saw it was this: if you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look.

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.