There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

I shall never exchange reading for riches.

Still we remain, still we fight. Still we strive, still we survive.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.