Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

—Mignon McLaughlin

No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

—Mignon McLaughlin

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

—Mignon McLaughlin

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

—Mignon McLaughlin

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

—Menander

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

—Mark Twain

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

—Mark Twain

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

—Lawana Blackwell

Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.

—John Wayne