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

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.

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 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.

It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.

The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest each day's experience.

Once in a while, you will see someone really drippy. The person has to stare at the teacher all the time with that devoted and disgusting and sick look. It's boring, misplaced devotionalism.

One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it.

As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she's turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

I'm pretty pale. In high school I was insecure and thought it'd be cool to go to a tanning bed. Now I just let it look the way it looks.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.