You take a number of small steps which you believe are right thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold cold bath early in the morning? I jump in throw the water cold as ice and after the first plunge I am happy.

Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.

No I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say I oppose this war.

In my old age I have been thinking about this and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

Physical courage is a great test.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.