The price and number of slaughtered hogs

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."
Thomas Mann

"There is normally no reason for the State to inject itself into the private realm of the family to further question fit parents' ability to make the best decisions regarding their children" - Troxel v. Granville, 530 US 2000 (99-138):

"Our lives end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A man that doesn't stand for something will fall for anything." - Peter Marshall

"Adversity does not build character…it reveals it." - John Wooden

"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt." - William Van Horne

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer