From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Work is love made visible.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.