“True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.”

“Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.”

“True love means that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”

“You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.”

“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.”

“It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, however suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.”

“No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.”

“The thing is to be happy,' he said. 'No matter what. Just try that. You can. It gets to be easier and easier. It's nothing to do with circumstances. You wouldn't believe how good it is. Accept everything and then tragedy disappears. Or tragedy lightens, anyway, and you're just there, going along easy in the world.”

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.”

“Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.”