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.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

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.

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

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

What is life, but one long risk?

Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.