Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Its not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

The more you love, the more you suffer

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets — neither of us have any.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes

When God supports us, illness is no misfortune, especially when we get new ideas and new intentions in those days of illness that would not have come to us if what not been ill, and when we achieve clearer faith and stronger trust in God.

You must not go there in too anemic or enervated a condition, if you set a value on coming out of it stronger. I do not consider it a great misfortune for you to be obliged to be a soldier, but rather as a very serious trial from which you will emerge - if you emerge at all - a very great artist.

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.