They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don’t believe that, he said. Then, a moment later, he added: Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious things inside us and surrender it to something else.
