Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

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.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

I don't have anything against Canadians or Australians.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.

I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.

No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.