I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.

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.

Truth is after you've put out all the INFO to your Soldiers in formation they'll soon forget what you said but will never forget what you did behind those words.

You just got to out there and flow, like Bruce Lee said, you got to be like water.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here.

What we have in Washington is total gridlock.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Procrastination is the best action against putting an ankle bracelet on future.

Never lose perspective on where you are and what you've got. And how you got it.

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.