“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”

“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.”

“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”

“Between your birth and your death, wander through this world in wonder.”

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”