Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I dont embrace trouble; thats as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for youll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. – Ralph Waldo Emerson