“I observe the physician, with the same diligence, as he the disease; I see he fears, and I fear with him…”

“This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right.”

“I did but see him and he disappeared,
I did but pluck the rose-bud and it fell,
A sorrow unforeseen and scarcely feared,
For ill can mortals their afflictions spell.”

“I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.”

“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”

“Bless God, he went as soldiers,
His musket on his breast;
Grant, God, he charge the bravest
Of all the martial blest.

Please God, might I behold him
In epauletted white,
I should not fear the foe then,
I should not fear the fight.”

“The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.”

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”

“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”

“I know not what fear is, nor I know not what it is that I fear now; I fear not the hastening of my death, and yet I do fear the increase of the disease… my weakness is from nature, who hath but her measure, my strength is from God, who possesses and distributes infinitely.”