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

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.

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

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!

When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

It sounds clichéd, but I think the greatest lesson is to not take things personally.

By the time I finished the book [All Alone in the Universe], Robin Roy was saying, "More pictures!"

What kind of man refers to himself as safely dead?

We need a much better understanding of the climate before making policy choices that would impose substantial economic costs on our Nation.