The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Above all try something.

Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.

A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."

Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.

Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.

I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.

Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

I think that there's a hidden darkness in all of us!

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

Actually, only God can satisfy a Christian's heart; man cannot.