Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

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?

Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved.

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

Networking is simply the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships. It works best, however, when emphasizing the "give" part.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

I like to think of myself as the running LT. I like to run up the middle and wear defenses down. It's more exciting in between the tackles.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.