“Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.”
“All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.”
“I like difficulty. It's what makes my job fun.”
“Find a woman who makes you feel more alive. She won't make life perfect but she'll make it infinitely more interesting. And then love her with all that's in you.”
“Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure--because goodness makes you feel more alive.”
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”