“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”

“I lived in fear for decades. I learned that you can’t wait around for it to go away before you make your move, only when you make your move will the fear leave.”

“Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities.”

“Is that a rule? Do you have a rule that you can’t kiss people in the morning?”

“... there's fear that keeps you safe, and fear that warns you, and then there's fear of another sort. The kind that makes you turn on your friends, that irises the world down to one frightened person.”

“If you can’t embrace failure, or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can’t be wildly successful.”