Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

Any time you establish new territory for yourself, you've got to feel good.

There are 365 "fear nots" in the Bible. One for every day of the year. Today I will fear not.

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.

But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; …" Luke 1:30 How like the Lord to identify our fears and hasten to ease them. Notice that Gabriel called her by name: "Mary, you have nothing to fear" (MSG). God knew her name just as he knows ours.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.

If you think you can - you can!

History is made by men and women of vision and courage. Tonight freedom is on the march.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.