“Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?”

“Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend”

“when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.”

“When it gets tough, it is time to renew your spirit, not to give up. It is time to be tough, not weak.”

“Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”

“I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.”

“[On presidential candidates not condemning the controversial MoveOn. org ad in The New York Times. ] If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be president of the United States.”

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”

“I steal from every single movie ever made. If people don't like that, then tough tills, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do homages.”

“I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.”