“Hardships make or break people.”

“Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.”

“It is true that an observer, under that softening influence of the fine arts which makes other people’s hardships picturesque, might have been delighted with this homestead called Freeman’s End.”

“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary. It's time for that to end.”

“… there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.”

“Break, break the walls between the peoples.”

“Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.”

“That's the way it was. Privilege, which just means 'private law.' Two types of people laugh at the law; those that break it and those that make it.”

“To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.”

“The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.”