music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

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.

I'm going out to find her, to make things right, or atleast properly wrong.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

Be sensitive to subtle differences between 'intuition' and 'into wishing'.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

He looked at her uncomfortably; blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.