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

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

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

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

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

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn’t matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

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.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

I think hygiene is so important.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

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

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

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

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

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.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer’s as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer’s it’s the best form of Alzheimer’s to have.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.