In all abundance there is lack.

May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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 happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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