"It's horrible that he's afraid, and I think you're right that he is, but it's not you making him scared. It's him.

When I was little I used to have the really bad night terrors. Like...if you think my imagination is bad now...wooooweee, it's got nothing on what it was like when I was smaller. Anyway, I would wake up screaming and then crawl into Splinter's bed and in between lullabies he'd tell me that only we can scare ourselves. That only we have the power to make ourselves afraid. And that it's up to us to embrace those fears and move past them."