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By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people do not like adolescents - even the good ones can be snarky and unpleasant. Combine the antipathy we feel toward the average teenager with the fear inspired by youth violence, and you have a population that no one wants to deal with.

Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can not tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I do not think you are gay. It is enough to drive you crazy.

More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He was not afraid of looking uncool - he was not scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it is a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that is a good thing.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I am with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

I do not have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I am willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you are always risking a lot. You are risking failure, especially if you are improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

It is the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon which raises the fear that it may not be long before we are paying somebody not to.

Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I am just thankful to be alive. I am just grateful to be here at all.

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.