But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Truth comes out in wine.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

I am not old but mellow like good wine.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Why do you have to retire at 65? Why can't you start at 70? You know, like wine. Why can't music be that way? My new band, we're playing stuff that's never been done before.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

Now the restaurants have begun to catch up with the wine-making; there are numerous great restaurants in Napa Valley, and it's wonderful because the people are there for just that: great food and great wine.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

All four elements were happening in equal measure - the cuisine, the wine, the service, and the overall ambience. It taught me that dining could happen at a spiritual level.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.