The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

For me, it’s a purity thing about the joke itself. It’s a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that’s a legitimate item you have there. For me, it’s nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It’s just not what I’m in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Giving is true having.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

The ads all call me fearless, but that’s just publicity. Anyone who thinks I’m not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

There is always safety in valor.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

In the flush of love’s light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.