I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

I just wish people would realize that anything's possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.

It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.

I want to try the impossible to show that it can be done.

I'm not a dreamer... but I believe in miracles. I have to

I want to set an example that will never be forgotten.

Dreams are made possible if you try.

How many people ever get a chance to do something that they really believe in?

I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.

I do what I do for the people who believe in me, not for the jerks who don't.

I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.

A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

We're here to have a ball.

I wanted to create something that broke rules and made women feel confident and empowered.

I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.

I do think that failure begets success sometimes, but it's often looked upon in Hollywood as not a good thing.

An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.