"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

"Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."

"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."

"Don't shine so that others can see you. Shine so that through you, others can see him."

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less."