The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The human being is born with an incurable capacity for making the best of things.

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.

Poverty is the fundamental cause of most of the physical, moral and economic ills of humanity.

I have found life so beautiful.