The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

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

I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

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.