Courage becomes a living and attractive virtue when it is regarded not as a willingness to die manfully, but the determination to live decently.


Thomas S. Monson (born August 21, 1927) is the 16th and current president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Conference Report, April 1972, p. 72 as found in Ensign, May 1994, p. 67 (see Psalms 31:24)