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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
"Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!"
"In every trouble the little ones duck more easily."
"Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with."
"Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any."
"The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life."
"Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think."
"The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown."
"We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life."
"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God."
"One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged."
"The blame is on me...I knew you were trouble when you walked in."
"Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes."
"You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess."
"I really am a happy, amusing fellow at heart. Trouble is I seem the only one left."
"The trouble with a mask is it never changes"
"Never trouble anyone else with what you can do yourself"
"When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble."
"Never trouble another for what you can do yourself"
"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."
