"Fractures well cured make us more strong...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.”

“Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.”

“The ancestor of every action is thought; when we understand that we begin to comprehend that our world is governed by thought and that everything without had its counterpart originally within the mind.”

“The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn't worked. And I think that we've learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.”

“Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.”

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.”

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.”