Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.