When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.
There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
When things fall apart you sometimes can see more. You might even be able to see how to put things back together.
In America and most other nations, reform is very hard to implement until there has been a disaster.
A lot of life is about trying to turn bad experiences into something good. Usually if you work at it, you can figure out a way to do it. Even our worst misfortunes are gifts.
I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.
If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.
I have a great amount of respect for life, and I always think that no matter how bad situations get, you can always make something out of it.
I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.
No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.
Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.
When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.
The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.
Whenever you can take something positive and make something good out of it, that's what I'm all about.
Adversity creates comedy.
As soon as I broke my foot, I remember thinking that I'm going to make this the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'
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.
In chaos there is opportunity
My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity.