He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Could any death be so horrible as birth? Or any decrepitude so awful as childhood in a happy united God-fearing family?
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
