"I was kind of surprised to learn how controlling I am. I never thought of myself in that way. I think the root of the control issues is usually fear, because you want to know what's going to be happening at any given moment." - Michelle PfeifferTweet
"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear." - Candace BushnellTweet
"When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'" - Thomas FrankTweet
"One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals." - Ayelet WaldmanTweet
"I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out." - Alan CummingTweet
"I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in." - St. VincentTweet
"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing." - Mary SchmichTweet
"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know." - Napoleon BonaparteTweet
"Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation." - Luis GutierrezTweet
"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death." - EpictetusTweet