“Solitude helps you to discover that you can walk through life all by yourself and that you don’t need to be dependent on anything.”

“The tests we face in life’s journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.”

“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”