The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The English nation is never so great as in adversity.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I definitely did. It all sort of righted itself once I definitively got on the path of being a musician or, like, following that directly.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.