No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

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.

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.

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

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.

Flexibility is the greatest strength.

Eventually, after much dreaming, the dream no longer suffices. You have to physically be there.

We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

There had been lots of crises in my life. And there was plenty of spunk and battle cry still left in me.

The first task is to discover the dharma by introspection, by constantly questioning yourself and asking yourself, "What is right?"

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

They have rights who dare maintain them.

Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.