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Obviously, resilience matters. I was no stranger to adversity, but it's different when it's personal. Not something I would recommend.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.

A prerequisite to empathy is simply paying attention to the person in pain.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

My message has always been about resilience.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.