I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

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.

Don’t believe negative voices. Listen to the divine-instinct of awaken soul.

I have an unfounded belief that there is a conspiracy out there creating unsupportable theories.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea.

What were you doing with her?" I ask quietly. "Apart from questioning her about your whereabouts, I was listening to the most intriguing story about my life moonlighting as a kidnapper.

Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play.

But I was also a brat. I used to belong to a gang that went looking for fights with other gangs.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.