We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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.

That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

The shadow that comes with postmodernism is a profound self-involvement. We lose all perspective on the collective endeavors that have made the extraordinarily lives we live possible.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Security is a process, not a product.

Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough.

When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

Thrift is a great revenue.

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.