As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.

Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

If you wish to discern either the presence or absence of integrity, you need to ask only one question. What is missing? Has anything been left out?