The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

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.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Mme. Deluzy has said that indifference is a woman's guardian angel,--a remark not only applicable in France, but all over the world.

The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.

When you get something that you don't work for, you won't know how to value or maintain it.

Dog is God spelled backward.

Freedom that ignores the transcendent difference between good and evil ends in the denial of freedom itself.

Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it.

Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.