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.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn’t matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

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.

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

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Actually, I didn’t start sweating until I had children.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

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.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

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

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

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

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

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

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.