Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to