The greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

There is no door through which tears do not pass.

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I have witnessed the appalling, emaciated shadows of human figures. I have seen women and children scavenge army garbage dumps for scraps of food. Those scenes and nameless faces cannot be erased from my memory.

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.

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.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.