I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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.

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

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.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.