Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people

Job understood that he was nothing more than God’s invention and so too was his suffering

You can go as far as you think, imagine and dream. Anything is possible.

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more." Bacchus to Percy and Jason

"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.