Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

All thinking men are atheists.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

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.

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.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.