People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

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

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

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.