Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.

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.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

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.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.