The unexamined life is not worth living.

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.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

It always seems impossible until it's done.

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

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

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.