My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Bravery in a fictional character is one thing--it's easy to imagine and easy to write. Bravery in real life offers many challenges. We want to believe we will be brave if a situation requires us to. But if we over-think it, we will certainly fail. One simply needs to act toward the best possible result rather than to ponder all of the possibilities.

You have to be willing to grow with your child.

We are faced with two disastrous alternatives -- unacceptably high costs or cessation of operations,