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

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?

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

Loneliness is better than bad company.

Trying is the first step towards failure

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same

Doing too much for others (often at their own expense), many persons are more 'human doings' than human beings.

God is the answer to all of those "How must it have come to be" questions.

The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.