Vermont is a country unto itself..

Believing in gods always causes confusion..

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, ev….

It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty..

When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result….

A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the bli….

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment..

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up..

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there..

Most mothers kiss and scold together..

Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qua….

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, p….

No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the ….

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear..

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium..

What the common man cannot understand he hates..

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a livi….

One faces the future with one's past..

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources..

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come..

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over..