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

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 love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

Spending time with God is the greatest treasure.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of God no matter what the conflict.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.

I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.

There's a huge gap in the market for modern online marketing and business education for women that's effective, fun, and gorgeous to engage with. I knew I could fill that gap.

And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.