"In a day, when you don't come across any problems—you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path."

"Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show."

"Don't look back—forward!"

"My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness."

"Real suffering, bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone."

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking."

"To lose patience is to lose the battle."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

"How poor are they that have not patience!"

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

"Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living."

"Sweet are the uses of adversity."