However long the night, the dawn will break.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.