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There is the natural tendency that all of us are vulnerable to, to deny unpleasant realities and to look for any excuse to push them away and resolve to think about them another day long in the future.

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

The most dangerous thing in the world is the sin of self-reliance and the stupor of worldliness.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.