I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously.

Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.

I guess chemistry always changes when you play with someone else.

Love what you are doing because that’s the only way you’ll ever be really good at it.

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out of a job!

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.