Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

I realised I could run after finding out that my dad used to run and it gave me the morale that if he did it then maybe I could also run.

Dad taught us about morals values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.

My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage administrative ability and their political prescience.

Once I had all the facts in I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager I didn't have any skills for writing as such so it came out in 1500 words.

These rules may seem simple enough but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.

In my old age I have been thinking about this and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors he is a moral coward.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

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.

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.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius mental vigor and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.

Goodness is about character - integrity honesty kindness generosity moral courage and the like. More than anything else it is about how we treat other people.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.