The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.