Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

There is a high cost of living to be paid by a Jew. He has to be exalted in order to be normal in a world that is neither propitious for nor sympathetic to his survival.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

And I learned that are troubles Of more than one kind Some come from ahead And some come from behind.

Suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.