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.

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

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume will become what you consume

Let there be consistency in whatever you do and whatever you say. If what you think and say is mismatching with what you do, you can’t really be trusted.

The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain and gaining new and wider views.

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

I just give lip service to being the greatest. He was the greatest.

I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.