One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. – Miguel de Cervantes
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. – George Konrad