Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Bryant H. McGill

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

Adi Shankara

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Regrets only apply when we don't learn from a situation. No sense looking back, look forward with new knowledge and no regret.

Catherine Pulsifer