Silver.. I dunno why but with what your friend's been thru .. the name that popped into my head was Helen Keller.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.