“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”

“The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.”

“Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.”

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”