I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

When we trust God more than our feelings, it confuses the devil. I mean, when he throws you his best shot and he can’t budge you from believing God, he won’t know what to do with you anymore.

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

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Man is not made for defeat.

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

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.

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

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

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

When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it’s been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can’t stop thinking about.

Demonstrate to the world, there is ‚No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy‘ than a U.S. Marine.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy.

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

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

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

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.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

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.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

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

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

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

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

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

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

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

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

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.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

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!

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.