“If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.”

After death there is nothing.

Find a path or make one.

A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

There is no genius without a touch of madness.

The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

Fear arises when we imagine that everything depends on us.

Why having been endowed with the courageous heart of a lion, do we live as mice?

If you’re not scared a lot you’re not doing very much.

Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

Whats your greatest fear? I’m afraid of heights. Do you fear the heights in which you stand or at the depths to which you may fall? – fear of falling.