My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me..
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with ….
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous ….
When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are….
I turned to look into his face one last time. It was as if I could see the whole universe in his eyes. Maybe he was God, maybe he was simply enlighte….
'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous….
You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey you go on is your pain, and perhaps your cure: fo….
To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tensi….
Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it..
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of ….
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would beli….
Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people..
In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whe….
The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things wh….
He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies.
He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong..
Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it..
See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ..
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them..
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature... Do not terrify them in early life with the fear of an after-….
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination..