In time we hate that which we often fear.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

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

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

I think unconscious bias is one of the hardest things to get at.

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.

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

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Seeing Pax get extra-nervous about which shirt he is going to wear when he meets Aung San Suu Kyi, I get very moved. He rightfully doesn’t get nervous going to a movie premiere; he gets nervous going to meet her.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

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.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be… a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

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.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

Fear is exciting for me.

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.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

What the heck is true love? I remember feeling, back when I was 12 and ‚going‘ with this girl, ‚Is this true love?‘

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

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.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.

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

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.

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