Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.

You can and you must expect suffering.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

The struggles don't define you. It's how you handle them that determines who you are.

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.

Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

You told me that all life's battles teach us something, even those we lose.