Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.

Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success.

Fear is the absence of faith.

Failure has no friends.

Successful leaders have the courage to take action while others hesitate.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.

When you were young you were afraid of ghosts, and when you were aged you called them to you.

My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.