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

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.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

I was very well paid for my age, and I could make choices, decide not to do a film for six months and wait until I'd get the right thing. Which made me quite a coward.

When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.