The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

It is almost an unbearable pain, to suddenly recognize the value of what you had being ignorant of which had been your possession.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

We set out to change the world.

The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.

The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.

My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.

Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds your stuff to any degree of fineness.

The world is crammed with delightful things