Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

Tell the truth and not the facts.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.