I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
