Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Aim for the highest.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

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

It's always too early to quit.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.