The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

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.

When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

If my father had a heart attack it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.

Attitude drives actions. Actions drive results. Results drive lifestyles.

It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people.

When you move away from where you grew up, I think you tend to have even more pride of where you came from.

I wouldn't say in all situations, but a lot of times kids can be the most reasonable people around because they don't have the deal with all the drama that goes along with being an adult.

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.