“When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.”

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Are you so afraid that you are willing to trade your freedom for security?

You can’t be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you’re gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.

Am I more afraid of failing or succeeding?

Words have taken hostage of my tongue. All the things I’m too afraid to say collect like volcanic ash in my lungs. Vulnerabilities bleed on paper but leave my mouth – never.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they’re afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.