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

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

"I do not mean to say that my life has been a succession of pleasant surprises, and that I have never had a hard time. But my experience has taught me that the pain of the wound is not always measured …"

"The world is full of suffering, but it is also full of people who are overcoming their suffering."

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings."