Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. – Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. – Van Wyck Brooks

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. – Tom Brown, Jr.