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

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

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

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.