However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

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

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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.