Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.

