All birth is unwilling.

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.

it's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't.

There is a right and a wrong in the universe, and the distinction between the two is not that difficult to make.

When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don't identify with it. You identify with your soul's humility and the ego dissolves.

The mother is really a more immediate parent than the father because one is born from the mother, and the first experience of any infant is the mother.

Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF.

A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.

Leadership is all about getting results.

If you want magic, let go of your armor. Magic is so much stronger than steel.