“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”