The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirit strong, even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation. Your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

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

It is good to obey all the rules when you're young; so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.