All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.

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.

At times, we need to let our choices die, for us to get a better direction in life.

Steffi wasn't tired anymore. In fact, she felt invigorated. She was going to make it. She needed more of those kisses.

To achieve anything you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

You're a writer. Make it up.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

To me, the [British] Open is the tournament I would come to if I had to leave a month before and swim over.

We take no pleasure in permitted joys, But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.