If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Misfortunes never come single.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.