I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.

It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips yet she won't drink from my glass.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality and I thank her every day for providing me for what she sacrificed her life for.

When you are tough on yourself life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Life is tough but it's tougher when you're stupid.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children.

In the military I learned that 'leadership' means raising your hand and volunteering for the tough important assignments.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Here's the teaching point if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Because of my faith and my imagination I was able to enjoy my childhood even though it was tough.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

But it was this tough little character part that I was playing a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

The polls indicated that I was feisty that I was tough that I had a sense of humor but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible as a contemporary poet.

Whiskey's to tough Champagne costs too much Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain Will help me explain As a matter of fact I like beer.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

He's a good tough producer yes. But I don't think that he's unreasonable unless he feels threatened. And when somebody's in your home I think everybody in the home gets threatened.

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.