In an ecology of love people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

I think people that have fear that 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses a sky without stars abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world they would die of fear.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants about people who are different has a history as old as our Nation.

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys' and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week I'm playing this big puppy dog then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want they choose what they think is safe.

You always fear when you're making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.

As long as enough people can be frightened then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs say or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

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

And if the great fear had not come upon me as it did and forced me to do my duty I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat which is how most people lose.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

When we drop fear we can draw nearer to people we can draw nearer to the earth we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it all people fear it and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

In the company of the accomplished people hope it will rub off on themselves in the company of the misfortunate they fear it!