All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

Believing in gods always causes confusion.

Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

the heart never grows old.