Quotation of the day

It is not often that Hollywood offers pearls of wisdom, especially in a movie directed to teenage girls; but this speech from The Princess Diaries (2001) has much to say to those of us who are a little fearful of getting too involved in the struggle for freedom.

It was given by Joe (Hector Elizondo) to Mia (Anne Hathaway) when Mia was beginning to understand what it was to be a princess:

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all. From now on you will be traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. The key is to allow yourself to make the journey.