To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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.

To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life.

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.

The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

What brings two people together anyway?

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.