Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
We're lost, but we're making good time
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
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.
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.