"We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it."

"You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down."

"Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit."

"Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success."

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."