One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Groan and forget it.
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your losses.
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
Find the grain of truth in criticism - chew it and swallow it.
You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it.
Boys, this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determination; the way you play it is free will.
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Humor is an antidote to isolation.
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
