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 e….

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

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war..

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive res….

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 abundant….

If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light..

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater..

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life….

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit..

All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves..

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

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

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