Humor is an escape, because you cannot think about your problems when you are trying to be funny; so, in essence, "being a humorist" gives you a valid excuse to hide from your pain.
The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.
Football is one of those games that definitely relates to life in a lot of ways. Everything can be going good, and just like that, you have a turnover. Things are going south, you're going the opposite direction. How are you going to recover from it? That's the beauty in this game.
He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through
You win some, you lose some and then you get on with it.
Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.
The first important step in weathering failure is learning not to personalize it.
There's no substitute for experiencing ups and downs - seeing how it's okay that things are overwhelming or broken sometimes and how companies recover from mistakes.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.
I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.
Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."
Consider anything, only don’t cry!
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
I lost my wife to cancer and I saw the impact of telling my story - this is what happened, this is what God did and why he was faithful.
Reality is not easy, but all this make-believe doesn't make it easier.
What you cannot control, you must accept.
Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.
I think writers process their own experiences through the characters and situations they write. So for Batman, I used my own experience of losing a loved one. Grief is a strange place; it's like an altered state. You might sleep too much, so you can see the dead in your dreams.
It's extraordinary to hear from people who are bereaved, or gone through a divorce, and they still take the time to tell me how a certain track or album helped them through tough times, or kept them sane.
Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
People with success are less able to cope because you're used to being on Mount Everest and when it's gone, what do you do?
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
