Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.