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.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
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.
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
The man with no imagination has no wings.