The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?