Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I do not think that is only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.

I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just do not know if I am the monarch of all I survey.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.

I do not run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I will wake up and realize I have been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.