If you want to feel at home, stay home.

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.

Don't be afraid of the darkLook insideGrab your heartLet it shineIf it's dark outsideShine your light

To transcend to a higher level, become the symbol of love and kindness.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

I think I'm a man that's basically misunderstood.

It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

Turning music into digital was just a con, a record-company con.

A president just can't make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.