The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything even nature.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.