"The only certainty is that nothing is certain."

- Pliny the Elder

"Powerlessness and silence go together."

-Margaret Atwood

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

"A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us"

- Kafka

"In spite of a sluggish economy, U.S. wine consumption registered its 14th consecutive annual gain in 2007, as Americans drank more wine than Italians for the first time ever and now trail only the French in total wine consumed."

-Wine Spectator