Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow, to move ahead.