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

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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

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

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

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

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

It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Fear not that the life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.