When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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.

Never doubt yourself!

Sometimes I feel so sick at the state of the world I can't even finish my second apple pie.

She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

If Emrys was acting normally, like the typical self-gratifying narcissist he was, then it would have been easier to keep him in that special category of potential enemy.

Our actions are our own; their consequences belong to Heaven.

The arts are the signature of a nation.

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.

I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.

Power is sweet, and when you are a little clerk you love its sweetness quite as much as if you were an emperor, and maybe you love it a good deal more.

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!