My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills . . . There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind . . . So constantly give yourself this retreat, and renew yourself.

Count your blessings – not your troubles.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.

The trouble with advice is that it’s usually something you don’t want to hear.

I’m not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

If you engage in positive thinking to overcome negative thoughts, the negative thoughts are still there acting. That’s still incoherence. It’s not enough just to engage in positive thoughts when you have negative thoughts registered, because they keep on working and will cause trouble somewhere else.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you’re in trouble

No one has more trouble than the person who claims to have no trouble

A friend is someone who stays by your side all through the troubles he’s caused you.

Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive… To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

Intelligence, it might be said, has caused our troubles; but it is not unintelligence that will cure them. Only more and wiser intelligence can make a happier world

I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

It is the business of little minds to shrink.

There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.