"I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect."

“If something is inevitable, it will happen”

“I'm the best and I'll thank you to remember that.”

“No one can be saved without divine light. Divine light causes us to begin and to make progress, and it leads us to the summit of perfection. Therefore if you want to begin and to receive this divine light, pray. If you have begun to make progress and want this light to be intensified within you, pray. And if you have reached the summit of perfection, and want to be super-illumined so as to remain in that state, pray.”

Source : "The Memorial and Instructions". Complete Works published by Paulist Press, p. 234, 1993.

“I've always been this insane. Isn't that interesting?”

“If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

“Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.”

“Wine to me is something that brings people together.  Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating.  It's the greatest subject to study.  No matter how much you learn, every vintage is going to come at you with different factors that make you have to think again.”

Source : "Lion in Winter: Robert M. Parker Jr. Addresses Wine Writers" by Richard Jennings, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2014.

“Teaching music to children is the most important thing in life, next to parenting, that a person can do.”