“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.”

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”

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

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.”

“One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and h...”

“The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true.”

“Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, th...”

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”

“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”

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

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