"You can't break a man the way you do a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man, the taller he stands."

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

"Without struggle, there can be no progress."

"Don’t ever stop. Always keep going, no matter what happens and is taken from you. Even when life is so unfair, don’t give up."

"Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It's what we fight with when all else is lost."

"We don't get to choose how we start in this life. Real 'greatness' is what you do with the hand you're dealt."

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."

"We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us."

"Power conceded nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

"My past is not a memory. It's a force at my back. It pushes and steers. I may not always like where it leads me, but like any story, the past needs resolution. What's past is prologue."