“I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.”

“Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.”

“"Don't you even feel how marvellous it is to have talked to one of the Little People?" I said.
"No, not as the main thing," Grundo grunted. "If you think like that, then you're treating him like something in a museum, not as a person."”

“I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.”

“My main purpose is not about football or baseball, or anything like that. It’s about helping others. It’s about finding the people who need hope.”

“Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.”

“When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.”

“People decide what you're like before they even get to know you”

“I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.”

“And I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy.”