No man is ever whipped, until he QUITS

We gain the ability to rejoice under pressure through a carefully monitored training program directed by the Lord Himself.

Don't quit. Don't give up. God can take the broken pieces and make them beautiful again. It's what he does best.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

You accepted like a beast of burden the whip of a stranger's curse and the mindless menace it holds along with the scar it leaves as a definition you spend your life refuting although that hateful word is only a slim line drawn on a shore and quickly dissolved in a seaworld any moment when an equally mindless wave fondles it like the accidental touch of a finger on a clarinet stop that the musician converts into silence in order to let the true note ring out loud.

Before and since, all her effort was directed not on avoiding pain but on getting through it as quickly as possible.

Didn't everything on God's earth have or acquire defense?

Other people went crazy, why couldn't she? Other people's brains stopped, turned around and went on to something new...

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.