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

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

I have changed drastically because I allow myself to not just grieve and feel down.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.