Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

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.

I live my life by the grace of God.

I always believe in miracles.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

For the moon though one, dispels the darkness, which the stars, though numerous, do not.

God never puts something in our path where He has not already equipped us to handle.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.