It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

All worrying will do is make you live through the misery twice.

Staying the course involves some bends in the road. Being stubborn, refusing to go with the flow, will leave you in a ditch with an airbag exploded in your face. Never give up, course correct when necessary, and have faith that if you have the desire, the Universe has your back.

All life is either moving forward and evolving or shrinking back and dying. If you want to evolve in your own life, you have to push through the obstacles instead of running from them.

It's unutterably too much for flesh and blood to bear, even mine.

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn … who can be ill-natured and bad-tempered when they encounter neither opposition nor indifference?

Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.

Never say of anything that I've lost it, only that Ive given it back.

What would Heracles have been if he had said, How am I to prevent a big lion from appearing, or a big boar, or brutal men? What care you, I say? If a big boar appears, you will have a greater struggle to engage in; if evil men appear, you will free the world from evil men.