Courage ... is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life, with all its sorrows, is good; that everything is meaningful, even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
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.
Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
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.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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.
