I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer you've been searching for comes into focus. And as you walk into what you fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.

There's really only two emotions that count, and that's love and that's fear. And in all of your movements through life, you're either moving in the direction of one or the other. In order to have a meaningful life, you have to choose love.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

A wise man is never cheated, a virtuous man is never worried and a courageous man is never afraid.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

But nothing is crueler than a coward, and the slaughter to come is probably beyond our imagining.

All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

As you'll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you'll behave cautiously. If you believe you're probably going to fail, you're going to venture out tentatively. If, however, you believe that the one true Lord God is calling you, empowering you, leading you, and equipping you, then you will live boldly. Why? Because boldness is behavior born of belief.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

You say a man's got no brain, when he's a fool: and no heart, when he's mean; and no stomach when he's a funker. And when he's got none of that spunky wild bit of a man in him, you say he's got no balls. When he's sort of tame.