Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.

When I went blind at 13, I realized that I wasn't going to be a good baseball or basketball player like I enjoyed before. It forced me to look beyond the obvious, to things that I could still do well.

The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.