Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

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

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

He who is contented is rich.