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

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 ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

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 abundantly.

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

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

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

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