There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

You got to get it while you can.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.