I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

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.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

Good luck has its storms.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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

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.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

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 too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.