“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”

“If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.”

“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”

“I believe we have a deficit of moral courage in the United States Congress. We have many learned individuals who know what is right but have not the courage to stand against the moral corruption that is now attempting to undermine our republic.”

“Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . ."Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.”