We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

A series of failures may culminate in the best possible result.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.