We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
~ William Hazlitt - [Caprice]

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld - [Courage]

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, ''I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.''
~ Ann Landers - [Courage]

Because of a great love, one is courageous.
~ Lao-Tzu - [Courage]

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
~ Lao-Tzu - [Courage]

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee - [Courage]

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
~ C. S. Lewis - [Courage]

''You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock?'' Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock!
~ John Boyle O'Reilly - [Caprice]

Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
~ Camille Paglia - [Capitalism]

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
~ Bertrand Russell - [Capitalism]