Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

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.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.