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

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

I've had so many ups and downs in my career. When it's going good, you learn to enjoy the ride.

I've been through a lot. I've had so many ups and downs in my career. I think a lot of it is you just have to be the same guy every day.

The upside of a downward spiral into despair and defeat in young adulthood is that pretty early on, I was forced to face not only the foolish things I had done but also the stark realization that there was likely no end to what I was capable of doing.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

I will work when failures seek rest.

It's good to get good marks, but some students take it on their heart when they score less in future. But the average student, on the contrary, keeps on trying to do something or the other to achieve his goals.

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.