One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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

There are certain nights you and your image just aren’t in the same bed.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I feel, as a songwriter, it’s one of the hardest things to do – to sit down and say how you feel.

Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

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

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Farewell, fair cruelty.

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.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

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.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It’s also the dangerous part and it’s an ugly emotion that hurts.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Hatred is self-punishment.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Love is only one of many passions.

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

I have good days and bad days.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

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

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

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

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.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.