Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

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

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

Where fear is, happiness is not.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

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

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Fear is exciting for me.

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’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

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

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

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.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

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

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

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.

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.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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

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

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

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