I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

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.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

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

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

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

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Death is a fearful thing.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

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

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

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

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.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately… you usually don’t use it at all. It uses you.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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

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.

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.

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

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

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.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

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.

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.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.