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

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

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

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

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals; in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals. Don't ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.