Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.

No garden is without its weeds.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

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

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Aloha is free.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

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.