No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

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

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

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

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.