Adversity isn't set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities.

I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.