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.

He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

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.

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

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.