If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

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

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

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

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.