Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

My whole family have all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

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!

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

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

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

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Friends accept you the way you are.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

All through Latin America, there’s sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it’s qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

I was bullied as a boy – lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

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

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.

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

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?