Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Courage means to keep working a relationship to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Ten years ago it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

I'm trying to mix the cool independent stuff with the big stuff but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

Well my wife always says to me and I think it's true it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.