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

“When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Courage, it would seem, 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.”

“However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.”