The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.