Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
Nothing chased nightmares away faster than the rustle of printed paper.
If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.
When they saw me in my space suit and the parachute dragging alongside as I walked, they started to back away in fear. I told them, don’t be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.
That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.
In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the bed, it can still be frightening but that fear of the unknown is gone.
In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.
