I know that you can do the impossible.

I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

I want to try the impossible to show that it can be done.

I'm not a dreamer... but I believe in miracles. I have to

I want to set an example that will never be forgotten.

Dreams are made possible if you try.

How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?

I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

When you talk about a reader being emotionally moved, a feeling of empathy, I think that comes out of that line-by-line respect for reader. That's actually where it all comes from.

My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to dip in and out of, to hold, to have on your shelf.

I've always felt that kids are really smart.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

Every day I work my guts out in training, every match I play my heart out.

Similarly, when you lose yourconsciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, youdon't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind.

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.