but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

The man who kicks up a shindy will probably improve the morals of mankind; he will beyond any question improve his own. In short, I believe getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

When you can't change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

Every player goes through streaks where they're just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games, and a lot of times, it's something off the court that is bothering you, or coach might cut your minutes for some unknown reason.

Women have their roots in the ground, and often those roots are starved and ravaged, yet there is not a human alive who cannot reach and touch, with... her fingers, the very top of God's rainbow.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

Don't give up when dark times come. The more storms you face in life, the stronger you'll be. Hold on. Your greater is coming.

The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort.

Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.

In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains.