Courage is action, not talk.

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.