The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

A lot of children, like I did, move away from words because of the fear - which is something you have to take out of education: the fear of worrying about what marks you'll get, detention, worrying about letting people down, your parents, teachers.

I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.