On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

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.

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?

It hurts to get things out in the open, but it hurts even more not to.

I've got a lot of businesses that I've invested in and I am really enjoying it.

One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

If I came out a photographer it's because I knew about painting, composition, and the handling of light.

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.