He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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

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.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Aim for the highest.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Be yourself, let you come through.

United we stand; divided we fall.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.