It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

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.

Building on a bond is bankable. Building on bitterness is bankrupt.

There's something about a cowboy...

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

I don't want to be bulky and stiff.

The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.

Took over my city and I never asked permission to.

I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

My name is Mart Laar. I have been twice Prime Minister of Estonia, and I'm not an economist.