I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

People don't have to do things by half measures because they aren't getting paid for it. In fact, that's all the more reason to throw every ounce of passion you have behind it.

I'm in love with someone good and kind and gentle, and he's seen the darkness too, but somehow we've become each other's light.

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Many couples have never learned the tremendous power of verbally affirming each other.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.