You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.

Fruit falls when you shake the tree. You have to keep making things happen.

A surrendered heart leads to greatness. A stubborn heart leads to struggle.

Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

The toughest moment ever in life is the distance between struggle and success.

Leave me alone; I can’t struggle when I have the whole world on my side.

Power is different from glory for former, in the long run, leads to the latter.

Anyway, you can be sure of one thing, a man's got to fake just to stay alive.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

Struggle strengthens the human bond and lightens the burden of the human condition.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

A hyphen can bring you from nowhere to now-here. That hyphen is will-power, in fact.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.