Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner – that’s way harder than what I have to do.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‚Who do you think you are?‘

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

It sure is hell to be president.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Great loves too must be endured.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

People want you to fail.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

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

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Coaches will say that it’s not important for their team to run more, and they prefer to make games the right way. I want to make games only the right way and run 10 km more.

I have never been bewildered for long in any fight with our enemies – I was Armed with Insight.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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

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.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it’s done so I would recognise when I was being lied to.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.