You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

One night, however, his disciples took him and lowered him in a basket through a window in the wall.

And he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.

She wasn't a cowardIf she were she would have retreated back into her shell years before and pulled back entirely from life. She was a fighter. Life knocked her down, and she coped by getting up and moving on.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

If we don't face and overcome unsettling events in life, we are ruled by them.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.