Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God’s eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can’t un-see.

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

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

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

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

The risk for me would be in not taking one – that’s the only thing that’s really risky for me.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

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

I’ve always seen first responders as unsung heroes and very special people because, when everyone else is running away from danger, they run into it.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

My mother always taught us that if people don’t agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you’ve listened to them carefully and you still think that you’re right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

I was always trying – I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there’s no use.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.