My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.Stephen Hawking
My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.Stephen Hawking
Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.Stephen Hawking
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.John D. Rockefeller
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.Sophia Loren