I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful. Lecturing to a group of students at Columbia U. He was 21 years old.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways of reason.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.

The fact that people will be full of greed, fear or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.

It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death; and therefore, death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupieth it.