None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

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.

I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons, " said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.

Ask the Lord to reveal to you the reason why He created you

I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.

Provocation is on the opposite lane of resolution.

One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

Pray to God. She will help you.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

Perfection is very difficult to achieve, and perfection was what I wanted in McDonald's. Everything else was secondary for me.