Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.
Life’s hard. It’s even harder when you’re stupid.
When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.
Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
My heart is so tired.
Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.
When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.