I think my career will be remembered for what it was and what it is, and I don't need more than that.

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

Never allow the circumstances of your life to become an excuse. People will allow you to do it. But I believe we have a personal obligation to make the most of the abilities we have.

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

I hope what people learned from watching me is that just because you do things a little differently doesn't mean you can't do them just as well.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

I knew how far a little boy or girl could run with 50 words of reassurance.

If you keep harping on a disability, then you'll start believing there is one. So I don't.

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

Imagination is glorious riches of mystery.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

He that hath children, all his morsels are not his owne.

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve