You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man.

Sex is a sideshow in the world of the animal, for the dominant color of that world is fear.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.

If I hazarded a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings - including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness -nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.