Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.

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

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

I've always wanted to improve on the idea of living well, In moderation, wine is good for you - mentally, physically, and spiritually.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.

This is what I think is very essential... moderation can be good for you.

Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty.

We want to raise the art of living well.

Ever since I was a child, I wanted to excel in everything.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

My brother and I had saved $15,000 by working many years nailing fruit crates together.

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

How beautiful it is to excel, and the goodness of giving from your heart.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

Wine to me is passion. Its family and friends. Its warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. Its culture. Its the essence of civilization and the art of living.

Making good wine is a skill. Fine wine is an art.

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.