"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it."
(John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)

"Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're
afraid to do anything at all. It results from over motivation - leading to errors that lead to
an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the
mind."
(Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
That is all."
(Oscar Wilde)

"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear."
(G. Gordon Liddy)

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom
shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
(James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors)

"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop."
(Usman Asif)

"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives."
(Gary Busey)

"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so
much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived."
(Rabbi Harold Kushner)

"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you."
(Robert A. Heinlein)