We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

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.

For Time calls only once, and that determines all.

If I call him back here, " Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?

It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Being on the cover of a magazine with my son is the best thing ever. It took me 18 years to get my first cover, he gets one at 8 months.

The development of a tree depends on where it is planted.

Whoever mocks his brother for a sin they repented from will not die till he himself falls into the same sin.

Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I want to create no matter what methods I have to use. And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use. Given that which of us is the greater sinner?