"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."

"Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one."

"Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy."

"Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life."