I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

A cliffhanger is when ...

I like what looks good on me and, as a result, I don't find myself drawn to one specific designer all the time.

Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.

The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.

There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.

If there were an ounce of courage in this body I would be joined by other senators… saying they will not tolerate this.