“So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.”

“Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.”

“In my experience, God rarely makes our fear disappear. Instead, He asks us to be strong and take courage. What is courage? As Ordinary discovered, courage is not the absence of fear; rather, it's choosing to act in spite of the fear. You could say that without fear, you can't have genuine courage.”

“Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.”

“The best reason to take your time is that this time is the only time you'll ever have.”

“take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage”