1,395 quotes found
“I was lucky I wasn't a better boxer or that's what I'd be now - a punchy ex-pug.”
“Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.”
“I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than...”
“Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.”
“What we want is never simple.”
“When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.”
“Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.”
“For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.”
“In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.”
“I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.”
“The most valuable gift I ever received was ... the gift of insecurity ... my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out...”
“Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.”
“I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.”
“Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
“I thank God for my handicaps for through them I have found myself my work and my God.”
“When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.”
“Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.”
“This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.”
“Adversity has ever been considered as the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being free from flatterers.”
“Truth like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil however deeply sown will make its way to the light.”
