Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

The question “what shall we do about it” is only asked by those who do not understand the problem.

Avoid problems and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.

Again and again the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care, and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own, or has refused to face them.

Everybody starts at the top and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long slow climb and self-discipline.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences, that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be in the sense in which we are using the word logical.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The baby is fine, the only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

If there was less sympathy in the world there would be less trouble in the world.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. 

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Climate change is a terrible problem and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

If a man could have half of his wishes he would double his troubles.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of like 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses I still don't get young men standing up and saying 'How can I combine career and family?'

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Don't fight the problem, decide it.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay fine colours that are but skin-deep.

Early in my school career I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it I found time hanging heavy so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime I talked.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.