““My life has made me what I am. It hasn't been easy, sometimes I have found it almost unbearable, but suffering can be transmuted into strength-as a rod is tempered by passing through a furnace-and all my hard work, all my anxieties and failures and disappointments have made me what I am. When the rod is tempered it has to be polished and made fit for service...everything that happens as one goes through life helps to polish the rod. If I didn't feel sure of that I couldn't go on; I couldn't face the future.””
