See that during these crucial first 30 days your own inspiration is kept at a peak. Above all, don’t worry. Worry brings fear and fear is crippling. … - Earl Nightingale

we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can achieve, and yet, for an equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot. I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you and you can have the things you want.

One time I heard Grove Patterson, the great late editor-in-chief of The Toledo Blade, make a speech, and as he concluded his speech he said something I’ve never forgotten. He said, “My years in the newspaper business have convinced me of several things, among them that people are basically good and that we came from someplace and we’re going someplace, so we should make our time here an exciting adventure. The architect of the universe didn’t build a stairway leading nowhere.

Dr. Frankl also wrote, “Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of.” Even if it only comes true in the imagination, we must experience the tortures of that which we fear — tortures that are, as often as not, worse than those that might actually come to pass in our lives. It’s why the old line “A coward dies a thousand deaths; a brave man dies but once” is really true.