Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of 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.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.