When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

One must never be discouraged by defeats in one's youth, but continue to learn throughout one's whole life.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.