People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

You can be happy where you are.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

I can analyze people’s intentions. Immediately. That’s just a warning. To everyone.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

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.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

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

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation – and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I know love is the answer.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.