I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

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