Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.

By decisions made in a similar spirit of Faith, and only by such decisions, can men solve their personal problems, and win for themselves high estates of material and spiritual wealth. Let us not forget this!

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.

Sometimes the roads we choose in life are just messy.

It doesn't matter where you live, Sang Ly, it is how you live.

We cannot slay our incapacity and rise above it, but that is precisely what we wanted. Incapacity exists. No one should deny it, find fault with it or shout it down.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness."