In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I would storm the gates of Hell if Third Marine Air Wing was overhead.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

If you ever see young artists, and they’re not sounding good, they sound good. They’re good singers. They wouldn’t be where they are if they didn’t sound good. It’s their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he’s or she’s screwing up or not hitting those notes, it’s not because she can’t hit it or she can’t sing; he or she is scared.

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

Fear is exciting for me.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

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.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs on stage, and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going on stage and being myself.

Political courage is not political suicide.

It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

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.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

I don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.

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

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.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It’s wise to know where you come from, who called your name.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

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.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

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

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

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

Freedom lies in being bold.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.