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.

On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, "We found nothing is impossible." That should be our motto.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

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

If I can laugh, I can live.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

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.