One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

There are no second acts in American lives.

The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams.

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively.

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

If anything can go wrong, it will.

If we don't face and overcome unsettling events in life, we are ruled by them.

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.