Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Just as courage imperils life fear protects it.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God listening to Him being attentive to Him requires a lot of courage and know-how.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.