When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

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.

All stories are, in some form, prayers.

Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

Introvert, her brain responds with a high level of activity, it is as if several lights start flashing on a control panel.

Love meant different things to different people.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

One of my favorite books [The Stand] of all time. I grew up reading it.