I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is...

The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.

Let your strength from the pastprovide proof of your abilities to . . .conquer the difficulties of the present.

Never permit your negative past to come in-between you and the possibilities and opportunities that lie in your present and future.

Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is...