“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower – the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement .

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.

In a thousand ways my friends turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Relationships are like Rome – difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the ‘golden age’, and unbearable during the fall.

If the blind put their hands in God’s, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge, and he who encourages them, who does not slay them, thwarts himself at every step.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Borders are man-made they divide us physically don’t let them make us turn on each other – we are not enemies.

Some people are nobody’s enemies but their own.

Be of one mind and one faith, that you may conquer your enemies and lead long and happy lives.

Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

Man’s greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.