The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Face to face, difficulties which appear really insuperable at a distance are very often removed altogether from our path.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can dispense with bad weather and storms. Whether misfortune and opposition, or every kind of hatred, jealousy, stubbornness, distrust, severity, greed, and violence do not belong to the favourable conditions without which a great growth even of virtue is hardly possible?