Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It's a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

I had a fear of being alone.

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

The fear that individuality will be crushed out by the growing 'tyranny' of standardization is the sort of myth which cannot withstand the briefest examination.

It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out.

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

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

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.