Gilbert darling, don't let's ever be afraid of things. It's such dreadful slavery. Let's be daring and adventurous and expectant. Let's dance to meet life and all it can bring to us, even if it brings...

What would you write if you weren't afraid?

Sorry, I've had enough of running away, Sophie. Now I've got something I want to protect. It's you.

My name is Sam Cortland … and I will not be afraid. I've been doing it for years.

But she squared her shoulders. Straightened her spine. My name is Celaena Sardothien, she whispered, and I will not be afraid.

And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger....

This is what they have in place of freedom-time and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite...

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point... ?Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum!...

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.

DELPHI/HERMIONE: What have you done? SCORPIUS/HARRY: I, uh, I opened a book. Something which has - in all my years on this planet - never been a particularly dangerous activity. The

Only fear can defeat life.

I did not hesitate to be disagreeable to preserve my independence.

That's the good part about dying; when you've got nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.'

If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that's all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish...

It is common that on sleepless nights one is theoretically more decisive than during the day, in fact. The next day, upon coldly analyzing this possibility, I concluded that I would never have enough...

You cannot say to the sun, or to the rain, To a man, geisha can only be half a wife. We are the wives of nightfall. And yet, to learn kindness after so much unkindness, to understand that a little...

Yes, we are totally exposed when we are vulnerable. Yes, we are in the torture chamber that we call uncertainty. And, yes, we're taking a huge emotional risk when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable....

How do you defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds --...

What is always needed in the appreciation of art, or life, is the larger perspective. Connections made, or at least attempted, where none existed before, the straining to encompass in one's glance at...

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also...

...courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you?

I've learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It's a battle...