“If you do not fear rejection, then you are free to take risks.”

“If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.”

“What's the bigger risk: Taking the risk, or not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by not taking the risk? What will you accomplish by taking the risk, even if you fail?”

“You have always been alone, always self-centered and fearful of opening yourself to other persons, for to do so is to risk rejection and pain. But it is a risk we are born to take, we humans. We cannot live alone, cannot find happiness or peace alone, cannot love alone. The person alone must always be fleeing, always searching. He flees from the loneliness without end. He searches, whether he will or not, for another who will fill his emptiness.”

“There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things.”

“Sometimes what you fear the most to do is the very thing that will set you free.”