It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

The man with no imagination has no wings.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

We're lost, but we're making good time

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

There is always room at the top.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

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.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

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

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.