They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.