Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

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.

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

People's attention spans are a little shorter these days. Same thing with food and movies.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.