the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

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?

The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people’s failure to recognize their ability.

Let's be real: if women were "naturally" anything, societies wouldn't spend so much time trying to police every aspect of their lives

Everything is because I love you.

I think, when men tell women to lose weight, it's a diversion from their own lack of size in certain areas.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

America has the slowest growth and jobs are a disaster.

We all know that the Disney brand is our most valuable asset. It is the sum total of our seventy-five years in business, of our reputation, of everything that we stand for.

You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.

Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.