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

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

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

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

...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe - but bored. Or you can care greatly, live greatly, until life breaks you on its wheel.

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.