Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

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.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

They say money kinda melts when you take it across a border.

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it?

Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

I do think it's probably true to a certain extent that you tend to sing music that fits your voice. If you're Lou Reed, you're unlikely to become a country singer.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.