help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

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?

I could not think without writing.

When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are going to be.... You get a little older and you pull back on some of that. I think you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.

The most important people are the once who loved me when i was hardly likable

Flow is the nature of energy

They want me. I want you. And you want someone else. But none of us want to turn around.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

A happy heart comes first, then the happy face.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.