Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

And now, of course this is another thing I didn’t count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

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.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

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

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

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

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.‘

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Good luck has its storms.

I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

I didn’t want to play it boring and safe. I also didn’t want to innovate too much. Second albums, man, they’re even scarier than first ones.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

My life is a struggle.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.

Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, ‚Blah, blah, blah.‘ That’s when I get crazy.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

I got the stern end of the stick. It was kind of that iron fist. I am who I am today because of my mother.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.