When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

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.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

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

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

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