Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.