What is life, but one long risk?

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.

The universe will never force a mindset on you. You have complete free agency to choose fear and suffer unnecessarily if you want to.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.

Beauty Tips - How to Look Younger: Don't be born so soon.

What you do comes from what you think.

I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.

Why would we go to war on women? They don't have any oil.

The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.