“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”

“Even in earliest youth my fondest desire was to understand Nature, and thus to come closer to the truth; a truth that I was unable to discover either at school or in church.”

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.”

“There is a big difference between feeling shame and being shamed… The feeling we call shame is a natural biological affective reaction that is occurring when we fear social consequence. To shame someone is to use the natural biological affective reaction of shame as a tool for manipulating and controlling someone to suit your own interests.”

“Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?”

“The closer we are to nature the better off we'll be.”

“The intimate rapport with nature is one of the most precious things in life. Nature is indeed very close to us; sometimes closer than hands and feet, of which in truth she is but the extension. The emotional appeal of nature is tremendous, sometimes almost more than one can bear.”

“Action is man's free will right, but the reaction is nature's.”

“In a game, the potentialities and evaluations of alternative outcomes must be taken into account, if the reactions of the opponents to each other's moves are to moves are to be understood or described systematically.”

“Free markets induce a natural collective reaction by society.”