Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own good

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)