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

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

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.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Our work is never over.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.

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

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

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

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.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

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.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.