I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.

The all-encompassing cure for cancer, heartbreak, irrationality, drug addiction, and every other ailment that plagues humanity?Fire.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.

I just want to be humble at all times.

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks.

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.