Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do.

Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.