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

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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.

For a sitting U.S. president to see our allies as freeloaders is nuts.

I do not believe we will have a war with Iran.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

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

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Law is always better than war.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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.

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

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

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

Fear is exciting for me.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

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

I used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I see Libya as a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and a sovereign State of the nearly 200 members of the United Nations.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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

War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.

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

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.

The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you’re actually helping to make America stronger.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Russia isn’t going to start a war. They can’t afford it. I think Mr. Putin can be dealt with if we stop screaming at him. You can work with the guy. You just have to know who he is.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

We are moving towards a world that is reordering itself and that may appear more ordered at some periods of time, but I see no sign that we are moving towards a world order in my definition of it – namely, a system which is accepted, which is internalized by the majority of the key participants.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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.

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!

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.