The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

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.

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

Man can live about forty days without food about three days without water about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.

Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

I know that 20 years from now if anyone asks me one question, it will be, 'What was it like to be in Saving Private Ryan?

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.