The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.

Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.

There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man.

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

When you love what you do, then you're talking to one of the luckiest guys on the face of the earth.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.