To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.