“Fears are not facts.”
“What counted was not the facts but the fears.”
“After a while the fear became a constant, cold companion, a simple fact of existence.”
“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
“I'm not sure who has the greater fear, mothers or daughters, that daughters will, in fact, become their mothers.”
“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”