Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

There are two kinds of people. Those who climb mountains and those who sit in the shadow of the mountains and critique the climbers.

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.