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.

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

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

The song ‚Innocent‘ is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you’re moved by the fact that it’s real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like ‚Let It Be‘ or ‚Long and Winding Road‘ or a song like ‚Bohemian Rhapsody‘ or ‚Roxanne,‘ any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

Some formulas are too complex and I don’t want anything to do with them.

In this world, emotion has become suspect – the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

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

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot’s hands.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

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

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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

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.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

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

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

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

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.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

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.

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.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

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

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

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

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.