“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”

“The English language lacks the ability to express thoughts that surpass the order of concrete things. It’s because the German language has this ability that Germany is the country of thinkers.”

“The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.”

“True courage scorns
To vent her prowess in a storm of words;
And, to the valiant, actions speak alone.”

“A vital leap in the evolution of intellectual capacity would have been the ability to form concepts, to conceive of individual objects as belonging to distinct classes, and thus do away with the almost intolerable burden of relating one experience to another. Concepts, moreover, can be manipulated and this is the root of abstract thought and of invention. The formation of concepts is also a necessary, but apparently not sufficient, condition for the emergence of language.”

“Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.”

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

“They certainly are not great writers, but they speak their country's language and they make themselves heard.”

“True courage…has so little to do with Anger, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Passion is highest. The true Courage is the cool and calm. The bravest of Men have the least of a brutal bullying Insolence; and in the very time of Danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a Coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in Fury, or Anger, can never be plac’d to the account of Courage.”

“Courage is the ability to ignore your options.”