Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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.

Hard work works harder than luck!

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

Handsome brother with a smooth goatee, makes me wonder why he act so ugly.

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

I like a challenge. I always have.

... and she loved a boy very, very much-- even more than she loved herself.