One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark fear of going down in the basement fear of weird sounds fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history they are born because of differences in emotional political and national circumstances. Because of such differences people fear they cannot live together.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things like in the Middle East India Pakistan the Korean Peninsula borders in Africa etc.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless the fear of being trapped the fear of being out of control.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority insecurity or the fear of being black young and gifted in this Western culture.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

People are afraid and when people are afraid when their pie is shrinking they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears assuages anxiety.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not gives advantage to the danger.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision turn off all your fears and go ahead!

When the people fear the government there is tyranny. When the government fears the people there is liberty.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not gives advantage to the danger.

Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears then you will fritter it away but you won't get it back later.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith to moving to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.