Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
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.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
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.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
