Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

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.

Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.

Take in everything before you and let your eyes be drenched with beauty, and as you love beauty in a reverent way it becomes a sacrament to you.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

What does art do for us? It gives shape to our emotions.