The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

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.

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

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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