If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure 9 will go in the ditch and you have only one to battle with.

The only way round is through.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

I'm having a rotten day. First I lock myself out of the house, then I rip my skirt climbing through the window, then Macy's computer eats my layaway. And now, old Noah here won't start.

share any mental or physical opposition that you are experiencing.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.

Man against Nature...Of all the possible conflicts, that was the one that was hopeless. Even a slim education had taught her this much: Man loses.

my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.

I learned to assemble a rifle in the dark and was trained as a sniper so that I could hit the center of the target time after time. As it happened, I never did get into actual combat, but that didn't prevent my being severely wounded. I almost lost both my feet as a result of a bombing attack on Jerusalem.

If you do base your life on how many touchdowns you score, how many championships you win, then when you have a setback, then when you have an injury, you're not playing, or something goes wrong, your self-worth goes down.