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

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.

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.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

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.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

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.

The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.

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

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

Fear grows in darkness if you think theres a bogeyman around turn on the light.

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

Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.

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.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

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.

There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

I have a very simple approach in career: You work with the people you love.

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

Scared is what youre feeling. Brave is what youre doing.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I've gone to prom multiple times, had fights with the principal, a relationship with my teacher. When people ask if I wish I had gone to high school, I tell them that I've acted all of that stuff out, and it just doesn't seem like fun.

To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement.

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about.

People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

Steel is prince or pauper.

I will play with anyone for my country. I may have my personal preferences, but such preferences have never come in the way of playing for India.

I grew up with a lot of friends who are white, black, Muslim, non-Muslim. I like people a lot.

George Morris is a legend. I was lucky enough to have been on a number of his U.S. show-jumping teams and am constantly trying to learn from him.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

The nature of the lost-wax process is that there is no original in the popular sense.

I tried never to take anything for granted.

Decisions become easier when your will to please God outweighs your will to please the world.

There are no rules, just really good advice.

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.