“I’m a coward.”“No—”“Don’t deny what we both know to be true.”Richard put his hand on Jonathan’s shoulder. “You are worn down by your burdens. Tired, not cowardly.”Jonathan shook his head. He didn’t argue the point. Was it because he was too tired, or too cowardly?”

“Too cowardly to be a warrior, but not enough of a coward to lie down and roll over like a good doggy.”

“The coward says in his heart “There is no love.” Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it.”

“I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live”

“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.”

“But I believe there is no difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.”