Wherever you are in your journey, I hope you, too, will keep encountering challenges. It is a blessing to be able to survive them, to be able to keep putting one foot in front of the other-to be in a position to make the climb up life's mountain, knowing that the summit still lies ahead. And every experience is a valuable teacher.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

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.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.

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