When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

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.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

My life is a struggle.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

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

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say… It’s like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They’re all opinions.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.