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.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

When I give, I give myself.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

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

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

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