Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.

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.

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.

Brilliant boom of Spring is nothing if not for the timely death of Autumn~

I long for a place that exists only in my memory –a cheery spot where my heart is happy and myspirit is free.

Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.

The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.