Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

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.

Those who love to live enjoy the beauty of life.

You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.

You can't teach court savvy

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

A debate has one purpose, one purpose only, and that is to facilitate the exchange of ideas directly between two candidates, and that's it.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously

I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward