Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

There is no art without Eros.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

My greatest fear: repetition.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I have no words for my reality.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Knight without fear and without reproach.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

My greatest fear is to be misunderstood.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

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.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.