I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate admirable and noble kind of love.

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Courage means to keep working a relationship to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Ten years ago it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

I'm trying to mix the cool independent stuff with the big stuff but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

Well my wife always says to me and I think it's true it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.