Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

I get bored very easily. I have a voracious appetite and I do not feel alive if I'm repeating something I'm good at. So I'm always looking for new challenges.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

Sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. In times of severe distress, we tend to get tunnel vision and think this feeling will last forever. It will not.

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.