Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

My reputation grows with every failure.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.

There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. I’m gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

We were poor, but we smiled.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

We’re not a fragile people. We’re not a frightful people. Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way. We don’t look to be ruled.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Good luck has its storms.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.

Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

Losing is tough.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.