The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.

No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he or she could have gotten off the ship in a storm.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.

I was looking forward to this film because this was the side of Anakin's character that I was really looking forward to playing ... that sort of transitional phase of his life where he goes to the dark side.

Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.

Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.