When things get tough, look at the people who love you! You will get energy from them.

The key to success is perseverance. Keep going, even when it gets tough.

Your journey may be tough, but the destination will be worth it.

Im a record shopping fanatic. I already got a nice stash here and I got a warehouse full of records in Detroit, its ridiculous. I lost a lot of records too. Having them in that storage paper, records was getting damp and to go back periodically and check on them is kind of hard.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don’t necessarily have or even want to have.

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

Lawyers are the new three-button, white-collar, cuff-shooting cowboys. They fulfill all the cowboy criteria. Workingmen with arcane skills. They can be both good and bad, sheriffs and gunslingers

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

The wealth of a country is its working people.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that’s all anybody wants to know. I’d say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it’s there

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on him to make. The hardships of the situation must not be merely transient – at least not in appearance. Otherwise, the enemy would not give in, but would wait for things to improve.

It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.

Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.

For me, life is about continuously being hungry. It’s meaning is not simply to just exist or to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. We all have great power. That power is self-faith. There’s really an attitude to winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry. You have to want to conquer.

Growing up in Chicago is hard. I’d say 80 percent of the people ain’t really got no daddies. Their household wasn’t right. All they know is the streets and getting some money to support each other and support their family.

It was hard for me because it was such a big change. I left a lot behind in Argentina and unlike other children living at the Masia, I hardly ever got to visit my family. I only saw them once or twice a year and that was very hard for me.

Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.

My childhood years were very painful. I was only 5 when the Croatian War of Independence broke out. I was living in a war zone and lost my grandfather in that war.

I hustle hard, that’s how I survive.

No matter how bad the situation , it could always be worse.