there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

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

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

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

When we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

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.

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.