Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

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

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Ideas come from everything

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

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.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.