"When you are young spend at least 6 months to one year living as poor as you can, owning as little as you possibly can, eating beans and rice in a tiny room or tent, to experience what your 'worst' lifestyle might be. That way any time you have to risk something in the future you won't be afraid of the worst case scenario."
"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."
"Don't cross bridges until you get to them. We spend our lives defeating ourselves crossing bridges we never get to."
"And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning - That path leads ever down into stagnation."
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."