A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

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.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

All thinking men are atheists.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

You got to get it while you can.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.