A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

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

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

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.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

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

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Make today worth remembering.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

You are never too old to become younger!

You shape your own destiny.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.