Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.