“Anxiety isn't rational. And neither was I.”

“Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the fear isn't what's important - facing it is.”

“Love isn't rational, it's instinctive”

“A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. ”

“And no Grand Inquisitor has in readiness such terrible tortures as has anxiety, and no spy knows how to attack more artfully the man he suspects, choosing the instant when he is weakest, nor knows how to lay traps where he will be caught and ensnared, as anxiety knows how, and no sharp-witted judge knows how to interrogate, to examine the accused as anxiety does, which never lets him escape, neither by diversion nor by noise, neither at work nor at play, neither by day nor at night.”

“What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.”