A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

I sell escapism.

Superman don’t need no seat belt.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

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

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn’t.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

I’ve always hated the danger part of climbing, and it’s great to come down again because it’s safe.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I ride my bike almost every day here in New York. It’s getting safer to do so, but I do have to be fairly alert when riding on the streets as opposed to riding on the Hudson River bike path or similar protected lanes.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Precaution is better than cure.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

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.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.

It’s going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I’ll risk saying that we’ll be lucky if something really serious doesn’t happen.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.