Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

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.

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

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?

I continue to grow beautifully on my inside while the wrinkles take care of my outside’’ – Binduu Chopra

Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.

You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.

My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities.

From whence it follows, that were the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.

Mistakes are . . . immensely useful. . . they show us . . . where we are right now and what we need to do next

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.