I think anybody should be confident in themselves.

I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always worse than the actual moment. Leading up to it, especially before the match, is when the butterflies are at their worst. But in the match, the creatures - my fans - fuel me. They're a huge superpower for me and my survival.

I can survive in the jungle, so now I can do anything.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

until the fear of catastrophe amends, or catastrophe itself destroys...

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicated, Spirit-empowered people. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this life the life and power of the Kingdom of God. It happened before, it can happen again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882), the great American essayist, said "nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm." What a deconstructed culture lacks, because of its deep cynicism and pessimism about reality, is a basic confidence and enthusiasm that is necessary to start almost anything.

Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "false evidence appearing real.