For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
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.
Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.
I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America's health care system. And it's those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform.
I worry about kids and all they are exposed to. Kids get so bombarded with hard, commercial sounds. They don't even have a chance to develop the softer part of themselves without fear of being ridiculed.
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.
Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.