Where I come from you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

Being a father being a friend those are the things that make me feel successful.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves provided that he has the courage not to deny in the darkness what he has seen in the light.

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

I think what I would say to my younger self and probably to younger just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something to push yourself to do those things.

Well I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things.

Everybody even me sometimes had to compromise on something doing things we know to be wrong and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

When you really believe in God it gives you a courage a confidence that enables you to meet the things coming.

I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do and you get your courage back which is what's important.

It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth and truth only prepared to hear all things and decide upon all things according to evidence we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

If we are to survive we must have ideas vision and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior.

Courage and willingness to just go for it whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.