It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

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.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.