the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

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.

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

I can't spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.

As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!

A decent person does not alienate children from a parent, no matter how angry they are at the parent for the divorce. It's unfair to the children, and it's unfair to the other human being

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum I know I am a great mother.

Turnin' nothin' into somethin' is God work, and you get nothin' without struggle and hard work

My greatest competition is, well, me.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.