If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
The fear of murder has grown so enormous in the United States that it leaves a taint, like the mark of Cain, on everyone murder touches.
Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: benefit fraudsters, bogus asylum seekers, paedophiles or jihadist terrorists.
We have a Father, and He cares about our internal world - issues of motive, issues of fear, issues of validation.
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
I think 'Oz' is the type of show that makes you turn away in fear and in horror, so for a television show, that's pretty intense.
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
