Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.

The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.

If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.

We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.