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.

America is better when all of us take care of all of us.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

Having that college-town atmosphere with a live repertory company available was a real gift. I found myself gravitating toward the theater from about the age of nine. I guess it was the environment that got me started.

For everyone who thought I couldn’t do it… for everyone who thought I shouldn’t do it… for everyone who said, ‘It’s impossible’… see you at the finish line!

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

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