I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. Don't take counsel of your fears.

I love, love, love, love horror movies.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

So whatever you want to do, just do it...Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

He had been frightened and so he had been vehement.

I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But he knew hte falsity of the reasoning; he knew how they taught also that there was nothing to fear in death, and how fearfully they avoided the idea of it.

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear, so that she could look at it—in the form of fever, rats, unemployment. The real thing was taboo—death coming nearer every year in the strange place: everybody packing up and leaving, while she stayed in a cemetery no one visited, in a big aboveground tomb.

What the fear of hell could not do, my discovery of the love of God could do: it began to permanently break the stronghold