I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Every hardship, every joy, every temptation is a challenge of the spirit, that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance, and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.

They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Civilization is hideously fragile there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire, once the flame begins to catch, the wind will blow it higher.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Seem'd washing his hand with invisible soap In imperceptible water.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.