A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

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.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

You wouldn't believe it. It's like a wonderful nightmare.""Sure, " I said. "I'd believe anything. Including nightmares." "What's the matter? Feel low?""Low as hell.

Men often fall in love at first sight

I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

Life is endless, not punctuated by nights, days, months and years - for all are one, in the eternal stream.