Resilience

Life will happen to you, whether you try to guide it or not, so you might as well try to influence the outcome. You have to know what you want and you have to be willing to go after it.

You get some success. You run into some walls. And it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

It's not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.

Life is fluid. Sometimes when things don't work out, it's the greatest gift of all.

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

Failure is not the opposite of success, it's an integral part of success.

I have always believed that cynicism and pessimism were cop-outs — they're an excuse to take a dive. They're self-fulfilling prophecies.

It's okay to fail, and fail big. Failing is the thing that builds character. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.

We dream, we cope, and we endure. And we keep on learning.

What is certain — what has always been certain — is the ability to shape that destiny. That is what makes us different. That is what makes us Americans — our ability at the end of the day to look past all of our differences and all of our disagreements and still forge a common future.

Our problems are manmade — therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.