Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.

Religion is more beautiful when it brings out the goodness in a person.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents.

Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk.

It's so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.