The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.