“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.”

“Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something, and thereby become diminished and be less. These two movements obscure the fact that being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, now.”

“The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.”

“To you, is it movement, or is it action?
Is it contact or just reaction?
And you, revolution, just resistance?
Is it living, or just existence?
-- The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)”

“Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power”

“The trick is to make fear your friend. Fear forces you to prepare more rigorously and see potential problems more quickly.”

“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.”

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”

“You don't fear so you live, you live so you fear.”

“Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”