“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounc...” — Miguel de Cervantes Quote

“One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.”

“No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.”

“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”

“The values transmitted through oral history are many - courage, selflessness, the ability to endure, and to do so with humor and grace. I got those values listening to my dad's stories about the Depression and how their family survived. It gave me courage that I, too, could survive hard times.”

“I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.”

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.”