Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. ”

Obviously, I'm not looking in the core of the reactor, but I am looking at what, at that time, was considered the source of the trouble, which was the water and where it was. ”

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did. ”

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. ”

One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience. ”

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all. ”

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. ”

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself. ”

The show can go on without me, and probably will, but I want to come back to act in Chicago. My wife and I just bought a condo downtown, and I want to do theater. ”

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. ”