To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
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.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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.
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.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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?