Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

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

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.