David Burrett Reid

which is worse, danger or the fear of danger?

greatest risks aren’t always what we fear most.

You’re more likely to risk your life going to work than being eaten by a shark, yet shark attacks get much more attention and generate far more fear.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

– Albert Einstein

Every hour of every day, forty people die from drowning.

you are more likely to be killed by food poisoning or die from falling off a ladder than you are from flying.