I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Contraceptive protection is something every woman must have access to, to control her own destiny.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Let us ask ourselves, ‚What kind of people do we think we are?‘ And let us answer, ‚Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.‘

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

My government is working for the common man. Our priority is the poor of the country. We want good governance through a dynamic and seamless government.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don’t care what they say, they like it.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I defy gravity.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.