Love dies only when growth stops.

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.

Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest

What does one do with experience? Do we react negatively, or do we (pro)create from the space of positivity?

Love forever, love is free

Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Ray Cummins is my good friend and one of the best finger pickers around.

Slavery is dead, but the spirit which animated it still lives.

Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.

I need you like the blues needs the pain.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.