The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
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.
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
