Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal triumph if you have the iron will and the necessary skill.

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

What makes us heroic? Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it-so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world.