Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.