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

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.

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.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

It is through seeking that you will grow.

Keep your eye on eternal goals

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

We were taught to be free-thinking, independent, to look at your goals. And that old saying, you could never go home was never true in my community. We always felt like we could go home.

It almost makes the secrets more important, those few things you actually do choose to keep to yourself.

To offer women something that feels more about investing in something and less about being disposable is a complete corrective to the world we live in

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.