the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

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.

Compassion is happiness.

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.

A problem defined, is a problem half solved.

You cannot buy your health; you must earn it through healthy living.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

Ozorne, my precious, where are you? - Rikash Moonsword

Photographers can create moments that will never happen again but last a lifetime.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.