Quote Tag

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

I got a mother who’s very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

I’ve got over so much. Mum wouldn’t want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again.

The drink? Yes, I’ve had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.