To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.

They say our suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition

I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you.

I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.