Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

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

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It’s ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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

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