We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.

We want to take ourselves out of our comfort zones; when you're in your comfort zone for so long, you only play to a certain level.

The only way round is through.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.