Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I never lose, I either win or learn

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

After years of imprisonment, physical and emotional abuse, and separation from his family, Mandela said, "I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away." So Mandela's story is really the story of those two things he never gave away: his brilliant mind, and his great heart.

He makes the basic point that it is not so much the disability one suffers from that matters but one's attitude to it. The man who says: I will conquer this illness & live a happy life, is already halfway through to victory.

The struggle is my life.

I never lose. I either win or I learn.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'

The real crunch comes when there is no yoghurt.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.