"Knowledge is the antidote to fear"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Fear Quotes #Antidote Quotes

“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.”
“My friends say everything I touch turns to gold. I'll say, 'I've been very lucky.”

Source : "No fear, plenty of loathing" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2001.
“Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.”
“The best education I have ever received was through travel.”
“Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they have the right to demand that their father or their other extended family members be allowed to come if they don't otherwise meet the standard.”
“I quit smoking in December. Iâ€™m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artistâ€™s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever.”
“It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value”
“Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.”

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