The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

When you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

What a nice night for an evening.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

There is no education like adversity.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience – which is definitely an acquired taste.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

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

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

The devil’s voice is sweet to hear.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

I resigned from the Marine Corps and flying in 1974, even though I loved them both. I quit because I no longer wanted to fight for peace. Instead, I believe we can build a more sustainable peace by working for prosperity.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, ‚I like your tie,‘ to a man… or, ‚I like your country because the weather’s good,‘ or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.

You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.