Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

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.

You Can't Live If You Can't Die

My many years of living have not made the actions of teenage boys any less enigmatic.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.

I think we need to look for any opening we can to avoid a war and we shouldn't pass up any opportunity for resolution.

Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

I don't see what difference it makes what side it's [your bread] buttered on. I always eat both sides.

The state has an active role to play in ensuring that there is equilibrium between the constituent parts of the economy, the consumers and the producers.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.