Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
I am the captain of my soul.
As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
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.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
