"Courage is not the absence of fear," Ambrose Hollingworth Redmoon wrote, "but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." So how do we find the courage to do what we are otherwise afraid to do? We have to look beyond the fear. We have to keep our eyes on the goal, on the "something else."

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.

The young foal following his parents around...