Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.

If you don't like the solution, change the problem.

If you want to know how negative you are, pay attention to how much you hate negativity in other people. Fragile, artificial positivity needs always to be surrounded by more positivity in order to stay positive, but the ability to be positive, happy, and even, at times, appreciative around 'negative people' is the mark of real positivity.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.