“Never let fear define who you are, and never let where you came from determine where you are going.”

Thinking and feeling that have to do with action in association with others is as much a social mode of behavior as is the most overt cooperative or hostile act.

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.

Hunger not to have, but to be.

Thinking is not a case of spontaneous combustion; it does not occur just on general principles.

We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.

To me faith means not worrying.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Like the soil, mind is fertilized while it lies fallow, until a new burst of bloom ensues.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

To me, faith means not worrying.

I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.

Wonder is the mother of all science.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Use your fear, it can take you to the place where you store your courage.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else’s fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don’t know whether I’m alive or whether I died. I wasn’t afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn’t feel fear. But I am afraid. I don’t understand why.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.