Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.