I don't 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't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

I don't 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.

Don't 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.