Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

Pain is weakness leaving your body

It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding—more like Jesus—if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here—the more we will be able to enjoy heaven—when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

Beauty remains, pain ends up passing

My experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.