Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

A child understands fear and the hurt and hate it brings.

I have to face the fear. I have to take control of the situation and find a way to make it less frightening.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the gate of her own fenced yard, she discovered the wings she'd always wished she had.