I didn't mind being a public executioner, once I got the hang of it.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
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.
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.
Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
Children need encouragement like plants need water
Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.