Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

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 unexamined life is not worth living.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

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

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.