Purposeless activity may be a phase of 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.

He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances.

I seek to find, so I search.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

Eat what you like, but dress for other people.

Hatred is never appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased. This is a law eternal.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they're all part of the same thing.

I was born. It was easy. My mother did all the hard work.

Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there's a good left and a bad left.