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

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

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

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.

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.

You have the capacity to do the work.Find the willpower to begin work.

You are nothing but what you think. That is existentialism.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

Every man sees his wife like an angel

Let us live today.

There are two things that interest me: the relation of people to each other, and the relation of people to land.

The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to poor weak woman kind. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet, quam femina.]

I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.