Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

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.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

If the truth is with you, no power can knock you down!

If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.

I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.