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

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

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.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

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.

Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

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