“Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.”

“The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money." —Marlon Brando”

“You will treat the weaknesses and failures of others with grace when you humbly admit that you’re more like them than unlike them.”

“If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

“If you’re discouraged, then be discouraged. See how far that takes you. Then try encouragement. It’ll probably take you a bit farther into your courage.”

“The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.”

“Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.”