Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.