It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

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.

The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

The river where you set your foot just now is gone-those waters give way to this, now this.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.