“Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.”
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Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
