Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
As an elephant in the battlefield withstands arrows shot from bows all around, even so shall I endure abuse.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.
"It is hard to be brave," said Piglet, sniffing slightly, "when you're only a Very Small Animal."
Piglet took Pooh's arm, in case Pooh was frightened.
"when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
"You only blinched inside," said Pooh, "and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is."