It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

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.

May God us keepFrom Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs.

Marriage is a financial contract I have enough contracts already.

Ah, nuts. I'm an actor. I just do what comes naturally.

To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it.

Do not pray to marry the one that you love, but to love the one that you marry.

Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.