We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

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.

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.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

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

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

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

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

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.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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.

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.

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

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

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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.

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.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

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.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

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

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

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

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.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

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.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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.

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.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

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

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

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

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.