“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.”

“Do the thing you fear the most and the death of fear is certain.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”

“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.”

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

“You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.”