Risk
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To place our ideas and our dreams before the crowd is to risk loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try at all is to risk failure.

But we must.

Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The woman, the man, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing