Vince McConnell

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos; trees, clouds, everything.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren’t paying attention to.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. What do we live for if not to make the world less difficult for each other?

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.