Michael Graves Quotes

I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with tangled legs; they never thought I'd be able to dance... without knowing it, as a child I overcame a lot thanks to really doting, loving parents and a great family and a hard work ethic on my part.

Let me just worry about me. I'm not worried about anyone else. If you're doing fine, great; if you're struggling, I hope things get better for you. But I've got to be worried about my career.

I always had a separate life than just my work. I built my own family. I have my own hobbies and interests. I have a ranch with livestock and horses. I didn't always get my self-esteem and identity from acting. I never worked unless I wanted to. I never did anything just to do it, just for the paycheck. I always did things that I liked.

Let me make this clear: my impairment is such that without a wheelchair, I can't do very much for myself. I can't get out of bed. I can't get myself to the toilet. I certainly can't get myself to work.

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't.

I will never apologize for having a life.

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

I wanted my kids to be able to look at their mom and be like, 'She can take care of herself.'

I have understood by observing blind people that they are very confident. They don't see themselves as suffering from a disability.

I was told that I would be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

At the time I was asked if I would ever step back in a race car, but what was very important for me was to go into the bathroom and pee on my own, but I could not do that. I had to be helped. That was my number one priority.

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

We are all individuals. I can't eat for you and you can't eat for me. I can't sleep for you and you can sleep for me. We are absolutely all individuals. When our purpose is fulfilled, it feels beautiful. That is, to me, the feeling of fulfillment.

My right side is paralyzed. I need no doctor. I can overcome my own troubles.

People around you should really have nothin' to say. Me, I'm just proud of the fact that you've done it your way.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

The only person who is going to give you security and the life you want is you.

Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.

One foote is better then two crutches.