Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.― Mark Twain

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I envied him, the courage to be himself. In public. ― Ruta Sepetys

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In the Soviet Union, it's takes more courage to retreat than advance. ― Joseph Stalin

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Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be. ― Lucas Scott

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Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. — Martha Graham

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It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

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