The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

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.

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.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

All wealth is the product of labor.

I am the captain of my soul.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.