I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

I was born a cripple, with two club feet, and mild polio in the left leg. I was in orthopaedic boots right through to my teenage years and, unfortunately, the fashion then was for light shoes. I discovered very quickly that I had a sharp mind and an exceedingly sharp tongue.

We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

Don't let your failures define you.

We are a people of improbable hope.

But know this America: we will meet them

I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

I walked through the valley of my fate, is all, and learned to love what I could lose.