I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.
Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.
The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.
When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them …
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
I could've easily let the passing of my brother control how I live my life. But I was determined not to let him die in vain and to make a negative into a positive.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.
I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.
After everything I've been through - the foster care, the losing my parents and stuff like that, I was never one to kind of go, 'I'm gonna just not try.' I used it all as ammunition.
