Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

I love good food. For me, that means lots of green juice, salad, and good dark chocolate.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.