Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

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.

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

There are new mercies every morning.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop.

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.