Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

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.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.

In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.