It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
The fear of criticism is at the bottom of the destruction of most ideas which never reach the planning and action stage.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
All we have to fear is fear itself.
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.
Courage is not the absence of fear it is inspiring others to move beyond it.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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.
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
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.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.