Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The time is always right to do the right thing

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

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

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

It's always too early to quit.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.