“What's the point of doing anything if it's easy? It's so much more valuable when a challenge has to be overcome.”

“it doesn't matter what the challenge is -athletics, business, romance, health, academics, the arts- the rule for getting up is the same. you just get up!”

“you always have to keep things fun. if you don't, no matter how many awards you win or how much money you make, you will never be happy.”

“We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.”

“The only handicap in life is a bad attitude.”

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

“My job was to make sure that my pain was not visible to the audience. They came to escape their troubles, not to be drawn into my own pain.”