A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Love is a hole in the heart.

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

You all right now?" "I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.