We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.

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

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

The best way out is always through.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.