Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

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 believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

The world is a beautiful book but of little use to him who cannot read it.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

you can't just heely away from your problems forever

The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it.

Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

I know that people change. I thought... I thought we're going to change together. I thought that's what it meant to be in love.