Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

To make a difference is not a matter of accident...People CHOOSE to make a difference.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.