“Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ”

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”

“The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.”

“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.”

“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.”

“If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.”

“I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.”

“How does one kill fear? ... How do you shoot a specter through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by its spectral throat?”

“The sun rises bright and beautiful as if it feels no pain.It must not see, it must not hear, it can't possibly or it would not be able to overcome so defiantly.My bed creaks and whines when I leave...”

“When you learn to love your past it becomes the wings that allow you to fly rather than the burden you drag along behind you.”

“One of the central elements of resilience, Bonanno has found, is perception: Do you conceptualize an event as traumatic, or as an opportunity to learn and grow? Events are not traumatic until we ex...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”