I do not know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can not do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

I do not have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

Do not fear change - embrace it.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies resources, and minimized their own.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

If I have resistance to something, it means there is something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

I have no fear of death. More important, I do not fear life.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

I have always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.