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.

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

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Cameras aren’t guns. They can’t really hurt you.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

Fear is real, but so is love.

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.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

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.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

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

Precaution is better than cure.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

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

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

Silence is safer than speech.

Beauty without expression is boring.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There’s no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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.

American stuntmen are smart – they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance… But in Hong Kong, we don’t know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

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.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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.

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Power is a complicated word and can take many forms.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.