Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I am the captain of my soul.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

How long should you try? Until.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Know thyself.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

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

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

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.