Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.

John Kerry met with Ralph Nader last week. Both sides of every issue were discussed. And then, Nader spoke.

A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

Singing and acting are very similar. Singing makes you reach into your deepest feelings. Singing is an extension of everything that you do when you're acting.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.