The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

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

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

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.

No garden is without its weeds.

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.

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

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.