When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.