Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

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.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

In the second half of the 20th century, people are becoming more limited: Vocabularies are smaller, thoughts are smaller, aspirations are smaller, everything is very scaled down. Everyone is typecast.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).