Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.