One day can change your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is three or four big days that change everything.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear.

They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.

Transformation into a humbled Character can take the learning of lessons in many different lifestyles within one's lifetime

Each persons life has its share of successes and failures. Just keep in mind that you will experience no greater triumph than your own birth and no greater tragedy than your own death.