"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

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

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."