“This stuff, this Mexican sludge, just grabbed you by the f–king heartstrings and tore me apart. All those years of snorting coke, and then I accidentally get involved in heroin after smoking crack for the first time. It finally tied my shoelaces together.”
"Listen, smile, accept, and then do what you thought you would do anyway."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Awareness
"Worrying is praying for something you don’t want."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Awareness
"Remember just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Hope
"Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don't change. So the thing is to get out and recognize the significance of that aggressive denial of your fate, come through the crucible forged into a stronger metal."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Transformation
"Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough."
- Robert Downey Jr.
Integrity
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity