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

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

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.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

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

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

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

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

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.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.