There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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.

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

If people don't wish to be eaten then they shouldn't taste so nice

I stamped, certified, and lipsticked my life in a package sent through Priority Mail directly to the devil herself...and there's no turning back.

My country, right or wrong, ” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.

Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but I don't consider myself a comedian by any means.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

If you ever go to talk to an editor you don't want to be able to turn down a job because you can't do what is necessary.

Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

A country's middle class is its bedrock.