The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough