Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune..

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subj….

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he wo….

There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We n….

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth p….

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me..

It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're sca….

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk..

I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success..

fear cannot exist when one is indifferent to life..

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes..

Fear cannot touch me… It can only taunt me, It cannot take me, Just tell me where to go… I can either follow, Or stay in my bed… I can hold on To the….

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, b….

Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a….

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person..

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness..

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him..

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure..

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the po….

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained..

The best way to compel weak-minded people to adopt our opinion, is to frighten them from all others, by magnifying their danger..