An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotten member is a gain.

An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotten member is a gain.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, read more

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I read more

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.