“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.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s fearless to stop believing them. It’s fearless to say “you’re not sorry” and walk away.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.