When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10 000 kicks once but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10 000 times.

You know sometimes I feel well and vital in the world and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous where you can't go anywhere.