People think they can tame the earth. How absurd! The vanity of human wishes is endless. It is more fun to dance with life.
We are all citizens of history.
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.
Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership. . . treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.
I have an apple that thinks its a pear. And a bun that thinks it’s a cat. And a lettuce that thinks its a lettuce. " "It’s a clever lettuce, then. " "Hardly," she said with a delicate snort. "Why would anything clever think it’s a lettuce?" "Even if it is a lettuce?" I asked. "Especially then," she said. "Bad enough to be a lettuce. How awful to think you are a lettuce too.
One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk.
We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery. . . we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.