You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

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?

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages equals low employment, it's absurd.

Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.