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.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

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.

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

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

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