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.

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.