Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

Experience is everything.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.

I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

Every time you see kid and hear kid, you think, man, I have to not sound like a kid.

When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.