I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character.

What else changes a person but the living of a story? And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

an entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Mark well what I say. Do not overlook this, though all the rest be forgotten. I do not say that the statesman must throw up his office, and the rich man forsake his property. Let no one fancy that I mean this. But I say, if a man would be saved, whatever be his rank in life, he must be prepared for tribulation. He must make up his mind to choose much which seems evil, and to give up and refuse much which seems good.

Faith told Moses that affliction and suffering were not real evils.--They were the school of God, in which He trains the children of grace for glory--the medicines which are needful to purify our corrupt wills--the furnace which must burn away our dross--the knife which must cut the ties that bind us to the world.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

Success consists of going from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.