For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have - and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

I gradually stopped wondering, ‘What life do I have?' and began to consider, ‘What life can I build?