It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

I guess that’s what growing up is. Saying good-by to a lot of things. Sometimes it is easy and sometimes it isn’t. But it is all right.

My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

I didnt wear the pink panties because I didnt want America going crazy with excitement.

Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring, you will become a frustrated person and a hopeless person.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies.