The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

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.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.

I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous.

Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.