I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray - Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and...

If your mom asks you to do the dishes, do not pull out your pirate attitude. But if someone tells you you're not good enough, says your dreams are too lofty, or claims there is no room in showbiz for...

There are opportunities in every struggle. Look for these opportunities and make it great.

Once he got bitten, and they all wept bitterly, expecting to see a spectacular death - agony; but he just went off into the bush and probably ate something, for he came back in a few days quite...

The sun though it passes through dirty places yet remains as pure as before.

A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.

If I see a door coming my way I'm knocking it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.

It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who nevertheless set aside a day of thanksgiving.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

"So now what?" I ask. She is quiet for a long time, long enough that I assume she's gone to sleep. "I think this is just part of it," she says. "Civilisations fall. People keep going."

the lessons are best when the pain is worse

When things are bad, be thankful... they are not as bad as they could be.

Fleet kept running, Kaladin growled, getting back under Elhokar's arm. What? He couldn't win, but he kept running. And when the storm caught him, it didn't matter that he'd died, because he'd run for...

He'd valued his dignity more than his own life.

How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken

Here, from her ashes you lay. A broken girl so lost in despondency that you know that even if she does find her way out of this labyrinth in hell, that she will never see, feel, taste, or touch life...

When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time.