think one of the worst enemies of creativity is self-doubt.

All great men are delusional. How else could they be crazy enough to think they could change the world?

On n'est pas courageux si on ne connaît pas la peur.

I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key.

Consider your own deepest fears-real or imagined. Actually all fear is born of the imagination, which means that the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent.

If someone says something that has no basis in truth, it doesn't bother us much. It's the things we fear they might be right about that hurt.

We fear jumping because we fear falling. We fear being broken. But still, jump we must, because it's only in jumping that we'll ever find someone to catch us.

The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don't even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, "What are you trying to teach me?" Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real." From Everything Belongs, p. 143

Hammer away, ye hostile bands. Your hammers break; God's anvil stands.

The tyrant of Syracuse once went to the slavephilosopher Epictetus and told him, "I'll pay the ransom for you and you will be liberated " Epictetus replied, "Why do you care about me? Free yourself." "But I am a king," said the amazed tyrant. "This I contest," was the answer of the philosopher. "He who masters his passions is a king even while in chains. He who is ruled by his passions is a slave even while sitting on a throne.

Fear is a self-imposed prison that will keep you from becoming what God intends for you to be. You must move against it with the weapons of faith and love.

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.