There is no education like adversity. – Disraeli

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. РAntoine de Saint-Exup̩ry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)