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.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

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

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Aim for the highest.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

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.