Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

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.

Dreaming is good, but actions are better. Actions are what transform dreams into reality.

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe in pursuit of a peripatetic scholarship.

The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a 'chill pill' from your willingness to endure their misery.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.