“You think you can be as heroic as he was, simply by dying. But he doesn’t take courage to die. That’s easy. It takes courage to live.”

“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”

“It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.”

“Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.”

“I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.”

“This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fantasizing heroic shit without realizing that what was shaping up was going to be the greatest heroic adventure of them all: trying to live and be a decent human being. That shit takes more courage than I ever had.”

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”

“It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.”

“Courage doesn’t mean you aren’t scared.”

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”