“You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself”
“If you are having trouble with someone,you may be having more trouble with yourself.”
“You walk around with a negative attitude and you're just naturally going to bring trouble and hard times down on yourself.”
“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.”
“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
“In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.”