True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

For me, I never ever felt the ownership or any identity with any community of disabilities. I didn't grow up being told that I was a disabled child.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

The Pentagon isn't a place that champions individuality and innovation.