"It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions."

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."

"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death."

"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

"Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context."

"An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward."

"The simplest truths often reveal that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."