Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

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

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

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.

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.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

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.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

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 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.

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

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I don’t like to be bored.

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

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

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.

Fear is real, but so is love.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be… a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

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

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

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

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.