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 refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.