Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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.

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

When you just have a torch and horror around you... then turn off the torch.

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

People trust me. I sell sincerity.

I had always been singing, all of my life, but it wasn't until I got out of high school and was on my own that I didn't have any accompaniment.

I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

I've often written about places that are totally different from anything I know. Sometimes they turn out better.

Of course, not all desires lead to happiness. Desires can and do lead to pain and frustration.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.