Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

Don't listen to negative influences. Believe in yourself, and show others what you can do. Only "you" can find your potential.

I think what I represent is achieving what you want in life. It's a matter of your attitude. Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

People suddenly expected less of me and I didn't want that. Not only could I keep up with sighted kids, I could excel. I have an intense competiveness that was always in me.

I wanted to run my race. I didn't want to sit there and play games and see who could kick the hardest. I wanted it to be a race.

If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.

Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.

There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight.

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

She stole my dreams. I wanted to show her I can survive and now that won't happen

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.