“There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect...”

“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”

“Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's conc...”

“If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.”

“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

“The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.”

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”

“Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”

“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”

“I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has...”