What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'

The best teacher lodges an intent not in the mind but in the heart.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

We have nothing to fear but missing our massage appointment time

You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn't get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that's not - I'm not going to be bought by anyone.

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.

Fashion is an instant language.

I never really considered myself attractive, really. I was always kind of gangly in school.