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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case.

Find the grain of truth in criticism -- chew it and swallow it.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers... I appreciate where we've come from.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires -- disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time, but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.