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

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

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.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

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.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

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

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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.

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

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

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.

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

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

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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

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.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

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

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

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

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.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

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!

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

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

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

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.