"Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool." ― Dean Koontz Topic(s): Courage More From Dean Koontz "One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong." "I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life’s too short for that. I don’t really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics." "Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him." More In Courage "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace."― George Santayana "Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that’s it. You’re going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that’s deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way."― Andrew Shue "Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."― Charles Caleb Colton