"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did."

"You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully."

"Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe."

"A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now."

"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."

"My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more."

"We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side."