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

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

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.

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.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

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

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Death is the king of this world: ‚Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

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.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

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.

A lot of people ask me, ‚How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?‘ It’s because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they’re gonna say no to you, at least they’re gonna be polite about it.

It was during the Reagan years that defiance of international law and the U.N. Charter became entirely open.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

The bravest person I’ve ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

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

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.