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!

If I can laugh, I can live.

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.

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.

A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.