I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it is everything and if you do not do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I do not handle fear very well I am not a good terrified person.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Is not history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that is becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.