You get to a point in life where things are happening everywhere around you, and your friends are going away and not coming back. Things change.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

There is nothing they [Russian leaders] admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for weakness, especially military weakness.

Now we are the masters of our fate, that the task which has been set us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our cause and an unconquerable willpower, salvation will not be denied us.

It is a crime to despair. We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

Strength is granted to us all when we are needed to serve great causes.