Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

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

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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on