I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

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

Fear is real, but so is love.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

We are what we believe we are.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

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

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I never fall in love.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

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

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

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

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.