Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?   . Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking So that other people won't feel insecure around you. ...As we let our own light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.  

- Marianne Williamson
1994 Inaugural Speech of
Nelson Mandela