A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

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

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

Old age is no place for sissies.

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

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.