The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it occurs. You become more reflective of its purpose, you understand God's reason for it, and are then able to make the best of everything that you are handed. The darkness is only frightening after constant sunshine.

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large.

One's suffering, one's melancholy is, in itself, really only looked upon as failure or as punishment, as detestable or sinful or socially unacceptable in the eyes of man; but this is not so in the eyes of God: for He is close to the broken-hearted.