Socialism and Communism have failed, but now Capitalism is failing us.

They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont.

Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

When a manager asks for hard data, that's usually just his way of saying no.