“I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality”
“I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.”
“YOU feel sorry for ME? I am not the one who has never tasted bread pudding.”
“The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all.”
“Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.”
“A Man who has never lied to a woman has no respect for her feeling.”