I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

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.

[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

We are creatures whose behavior cannot be simply explained as a striving for survival and happiness, for release of tension and contentment.

Behold we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

I'll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

Just as the light of the sun attracts a healthy eye, so through love knowledge of God naturally draws to itself a pure intellect.

For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.

You have to invent the future you want.

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy?