I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

In the ring I never really knew fear.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Whenever somebody says they need an angle for their story I always fear that they've got an idea and they want me to fit into it or they want me to come up with an idea myself or I'm supposed to be more revealing than I've been and to me it just sounds like something I don't want to do.

Fame does lead to money which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it because I grew up without it.

And if the great fear had not come upon me as it did and forced me to do my duty I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

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

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion and can never be without desire nor without fear no more than without sense.