Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.

Often the way one maintains confidence and grace when thing don't go according to plan is more important and impressive than if things actually work out perfectly.

It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

God has given every man incomparably great power to reach the highest calling in life.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

She was a vixen when she went to school;
And though she be but little, she is fierce.