The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.

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.

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.

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

She wished him at her side this very moment. If only to turn it all to rights by doing his very best to turn it all to ruin.

I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.

I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

President Obama, by the way, has set a Guinness World Record as the fastest person to get a million Twitter followers. Obama now has as many followers as the Republicans have presidential candidates.

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.