“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.”

“We cannot alter facts but we can alter our ways of looking at them.”

“No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.”

“It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.”

“A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.”

“There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.”

“What do you think my chances might be of finding a soul mate in the group of you? I'll be lucky if I can just find someone who'll be able to stand me for the rest of our lives. What if I've already...”

“There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, ...”

“Well, good luck, the Vietnam verbal tic...It was as though people couldnt stop themselves from saying it, even when they actually meant to express the opposite wish, like, Die, motherfucker. Usuall...”