I didn't bounce, I coughed," said Tigger crossly. "Bouncy or coffy, it's all the same at the bottom of the river.

I feel just like the boy who stubbed his toe—too damned badly hurt to laugh and too damned proud to cry!

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.

When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.

I definitely had to pave my own path, which wasn't always the easiest thing to do.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS