Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

I hear people saying to me: 'When is it going to get easier?' When you die. Warfare is a normal New Testament Christian posture. Get used to it.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.