I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.

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.

A person with passion will not look somewhere to see who is not doing it

There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

When you have once taken up a responsibility, you must see it through.

If we do not understand our sin, we will not understand the kind of savior we need.