There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

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.

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.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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.

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

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

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.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

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.

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

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

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.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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.

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

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

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

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.

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

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

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.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

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

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

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

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

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.