One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the un…

One would say of my life, 'born loser, had to be'- but it's not the truth. In the black community, however bad it looks, there's a lot of love and so much humo…

Nothing will work unless you do.

To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virt…

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.