I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

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

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

If we don’t succeed we run the risk of failure.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

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

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

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.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

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

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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.‘

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

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.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

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

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

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

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

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.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

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.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.