Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself.

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it?

One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

That destiny is not reserved for a few chosen ones. Each man has a destiny. Recognizing it and fulfilling it are the purpose of a man's life.

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

To sate your need without love is theft

Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.

They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to establish a habit.

REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public opinion.

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.

girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.

In the justice system, we say there must be open justice where there is to be justice. The judged while trying must themselves be tried before the public.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

There is no need to be more - you are enough. Everybody is enough.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.