Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Life is precious.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Life is a song to me.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.