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

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.

If I can laugh, I can live.

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.

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