The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions.

Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.

every warrior must face defeat and that defeat does not define the warrior any more than words define the heart of a lion.

No life is messier than one in ministry

He is with us in our troubles.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

Here's the reason why the peasant is wise. He's wise because he's beaten from the very start. Give him power and then you'll see how wise he is.

But, then, nothing is easy.

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

He was probably a coward," she said. "He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them." "I don't know. It's hard to see inside the head of the brave." "Yes. That's how they keep that way.