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The more you seek to achieve, the more likely you are to encounter obstacles.

Every day of your life you'll have to cope with problems: big ones, small ones, urgent ones, ones you hope will just go away. Once you accept this and get on with dealing with them, you'll be fine. Things will get better and better. It's when you start hoping that tomorrow will be problem-free that you are really in trouble.

Negative events, difficulties, and arguments are inevitable in day to day life. It's not a question of dodging them as much as coping with them, even enjoying their challenge.

President Nelson Mandela said, "I would like to be bitter, but there is no time to be bitter, there is work to do."

The world wants problem solvers and problem preventers, too. This is not a phrase you hear very often, but prevention is better than cure.

If faced with a problem, the first question I ask is: 'How can I turn this state of affairs to my advantage?'

Your future success is the best revenge on those who doubted or scorned you.

Choose your battles carefully, because they can take a lot out of you. Don't be afraid to withdraw from a conflict situation so that you can live to fight another day. Beware those battles you could win if you wanted to, but with only a hollow victory because the cost to you would be too great. Battles like that are self-destructive.