It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.