I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

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

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

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.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It’s so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.

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

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

I’m not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I’m not going to back down.

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.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

We’ve climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it’s a valley of peace.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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.

When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

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

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

I love trying new things.

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

Live dangerously and you live right.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

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

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

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

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

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.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.