Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ... Great works are performed, not by strength, but perseverance.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe

...that what is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always present.