The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness - was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.