The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

When I give, I give myself.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

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.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.