Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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 symbolism of the climate strike is that if you adults don’t give a damn about my future, I won’t either.

I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

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.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

I’m just going to say it: I’m pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it’s about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we’ve done – or failed to do – with our personal values.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

Death is a fearful thing.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I’ve never been reckless – it’s always calculated. I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.