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“When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.”

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”

“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

“When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”

“You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.”

“Once you choose hope, anything's possible”

“When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.”

“Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want”

“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

“When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.”

“When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.”

“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.”

“When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.”