If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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.

Have you tried reading the Holy Scripture?

The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

The secret to creative freedom is letting go of our habitual certainities.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.