It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

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.

My mom's now enjoying Medicare. She's already retired. She earned it. But for those of us, you know, the X-Generation on down, it won't be there for us on its current path.

I wanted each different Chelsea to be able to navigate her own world without having to also speak to a larger narrative.

I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

I've fought hard and now I'm weary to the bone.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

The attention has to be on the Spirit. And that cannot be there unless and until something happens within.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.