Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

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

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

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.

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