To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

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

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

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.