Carly Simon

Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief.

When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

I never identified with the feminist movement in a strong way. I just kind of lived it. I didn’t politicize it. I didn’t follow any written rules to what it meant to be a feminist. I had my own sense of what was right and wrong.

I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.

As a child I used to read Gone with the Wind over and over again. I wanted to be Scarlett O’Hara. I never wanted to believe that it was possible that there could be infidelity. I never wanted to be believe that it was even possible for a man to look another way, even for a moment. My bubble of monogamy was pierced in a harsh way.

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.

Fear is primarily a creation of the mind. I create it in my mind-it doesn’t really exist outside the mind. I can dissolve it there as well. – John Mackey

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

My greatest fear is getting bored.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face, and there will be barriers, be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

Fear is a useless emotion. Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do