The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

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

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Example is leadership.

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.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.

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.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it’s extremely hard to block anything – extremely hard. You’ll never get perfect blocking.

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.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

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 was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

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

When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

Once I get on a puzzle, I can’t get off.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it’s very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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

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

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

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

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

These times are so hard, and they’re getting even harder.

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.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Every time you think the problem is ‚out there,‘ that very thought is the problem.

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.

I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.