True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

When I say there should not be a BET channel or a Black History Month, I'm saying we deserve more. I just hope people understand that I'm not judging; I'm coming from experience.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this will come out. We certainly hope it comes out fine; blah, blah.' Cartoonists don't go that way. Our job is to stick out our tongues, to show a big raspberry to whatever pompous jerk happens to be mouthing off.

I thought that through the strip, I could vent my spleen and be funny at the same time. But when it comes to humor, there's no substitute for reality and politicians.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.

As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.

I always craft my words to the point where I think and hope they're perfect before I ever begin sketching.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.

At every juncture as Oklahoma's attorney general, Scott Pruitt has consistently chosen to undermine and attack environmental safeguards - not to defend them.

Design shouldn't have to take a backseat to sustainability and making things responsibly.

I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

It's necessary to give birth to hope again.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

I just hope to take this confidence and keep going forward.

I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

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

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.

What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.

All I needed was the courage to be me. That courage took a lifetime to develop.

It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

When I became a parent and hit my thirties, I got my hands on an acoustic guitar. I started writing quiet, simple songs at home and, with a little encouragement, I got more courage and found my voice. I have people and movements who have inspired me to carry on, but I try to write about things I know, nothing too complicated, really.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.