In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

'Better Than Home,' the song, is about getting out of your hiding place and having the courage to live as loud as possible. It is about feeling the life that has been given and has been waiting for...

We cannot let fear and terror dictate how we live our lives, no matter what. Life is a blessing with an expiration date, and we must embrace it while we can.

The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I...

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their...

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to...

In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their...

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a...

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a...

But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

He must have courage, not the physical courage required on a battlefield but the moral courage to make and carry out decisions that might directly counter to the wishes of his superiors. He must have...

When in fear it is safest to force the attack.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for - first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly - sometimes annoy - ingly - curious and...

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Be real. I'm going up against three of the world's most vicious ubervillains. I have a very, very slim chance of survival. I have a better chance of winning the lottery, and I don't even play.

Proud to be an infidel

She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

Every gay person must come out. As difficult as it is, you must tell your immediate family. You must tell your relatives. You must tell your friends if indeed they are your friends. You must tell the...

A pilot who signs up to fly through the eye of a storm doesn't complain of the turbulence.

So answer me, are you merely a cowardly Moses, pointing the way to the Promised Land but poisoned by doubt and so unable to cross the River Jordan?