There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.

A lot of things happen in a difficult way inside Ferrari in terms of pressure.

They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.