We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

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.

The best way to love a woman is to let her bloom like a flower so that you can enjoy her beauty without plucking her petals.

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

All of our lives were a story

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Its sort of my job to feel good.

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn’t need us? What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning.

There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.