A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

They hugged, tight and warm and full of the promise he’d made upon waking up.

As long as you can start you are all right. The juice will come.

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.

You can't applaud a referee.

There'll always be Christmas as long as a light Glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, Keeps shining down... there'll be Christmas and love.

If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.

One could pick apart love, examine every filament of attraction, and still it would never be fully explained. It simply was.

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

I wish I wasn't so fragile / 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.