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

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

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

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

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

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.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook, and I’m saying everything in there out loud.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

See, behind all my tough, rough exterior is basically a marshmallow, maybe a pussycat. But not a wimp!

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

People should make up their own mind about what they think of me.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Because the Internet is so new, we still don’t really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of publishing or broadcasting, because that’s what we’re used to. So people complain that there’s a lot of rubbish online, or that it’s dominated by Americans, or that you can’t necessarily trust what you read on the Web.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

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.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.