Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required. And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgement on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage… Second, were we truly men of judgement… Third, were we truly men of integrity… Finally were we truly men of dedication? Speech to Massacchussetts State Legislature (9 January 1961)

I like it, murder, because this is courage. It is anti-bourgeois. Murder is closer to heaven, because after becoming remords of conscience, one prays, one opens the sky, and the angels say, "Good morning!" From an interview originally conducted by Victor Bockris in 1974.