God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

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 love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"

When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?

Subjective time flows forward, the phenomenal self is embedded into this flow, an inner history unfolds. That it is why it is not a bubble, but a tunnel: There is movement in time.