Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Source: A Warsaw Diary, in Granta, no. 15 (Cambridge, England, 1985).
-- Ryszard Kapuscinski, ( -1932), Polish reporter, writer; His best-known book is a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia.