Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
My feet is my only courage
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
When desire dies, fear is born.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?