God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.

Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being free from flatterers.