In politics guts is all.

As a rule  what is out of sight disturbs men&#039;s minds more seriously than what they see. — Julius Caesar

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. — Frederic Chopin

Life is a battle in which we fall from wounds we receive in running away. — William L. Sullivan

Fools  through false shame  conceal their open wounds. — Horace

Let us not look back in anger  nor forward in fear  but around us in awareness. — James Thurber

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid. — James A. Michener

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck. — Katharine Hepburn

If you suppress grief too much  it can well redouble. — Moliere

Bad weather always looks worse through a window. — Anonymous

The frontiers are not east or west  north or south  but wherever a man fronts a fact. — Henry David Thoreau

Should I  after tea and cakes and ices  have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? — T. S. Eliot