There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others

Courage is not merely a virtue; it is the virtue. Without it, there are no other virtues

A man of courage is also full of faith

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one minute to the next

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other, everything to gain