I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America – land of the free, home of the brave.

Love is the one wild card.

Football is a sad game.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

People like to talk about war.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don’t think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

There are some loony people in this world!

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.