We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

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

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

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

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

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.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

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.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know 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.

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

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

I hope that people around the world will be as inspired as I am to step up and to speak out on behalf of girls around the world who struggle to go to school.

The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.

I see children, all children, as humanity’s most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

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

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

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