When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
The secret in life is to make every obstacle into an opportunity.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.
You take what's thrown at you, and you make a life out of it.
