I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn’t find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

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

I’m so nervous. I’ve always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

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