Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.