The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

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.

The stars will live for me, if not anything else

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

This revolution, the information revolution, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy.

Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.

I'm not really satisfied. I've done all right, but there's room for improvement.