Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

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.

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?

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

I’ve learned that being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. Once I was surrounded by people and lonely for it, but now I’m alone and I’ve never been so content.

We need to look carefully at what we value, what we have, and what we desire to make sure these are really important to us and represent what we truly want.

Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

I will paint for money any time.