To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives: focus on the solution, not the problem.

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.”