When I give, I give myself.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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.

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

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

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

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Know thyself.

United we stand; divided we fall.

There is always room at the top.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.