I am far more fearful of the USA government than I am of North Korea.

Yes!' He says. 'Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.

We can be seized with panic of the fall, or inspired by the potential that lies within the fall.

The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them arrested and kept distances apart and you and your accomplishments are secured.

Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.

If I am sufficiently brave to extract the cancer of fear, I have effectively gutted my conviction that what stands before me is impossible.

I think that it is infinitely wiser to accept the fact that we’re afraid, for in accepting our fear we are in no way granting it the power to crush us. Rather we are finally empowering ourselves sufficiently so that we can crush it.

Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all I’ll be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what I’ve failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of myself living for myself that in the end I’m really left with very little of myself, and that is unimaginably frightening.