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

Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

I’ve played with IVs before, during and after games. I’ve played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don’t miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn’t that serious in the first place.

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

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.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

When in doubt, don’t.

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

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

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

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

You have a ready wit. Tell me when it’s ready.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

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

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

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

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

‚9 to 5,‘ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‚I Will Always Love You,‘ it just keeps comin‘ back, popping up its head in one way or another.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

I don’t believe in the school of hard knocks, although I’ve had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

‚Mean‘ is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.