It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

What man seeks, to the point of anguish, in his gods, in his art, in his science, is meaning. He cannot bear the void. He pours meaning on events like salt on his food.

When you put your whole heart in something you risk just that. Your whole heart. It's a high roller's type of gamble. I can tell by your letters that you love with your whole heart.

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

My mom is very romantic. As is my dad. They appreciate real romance.

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Create your own path. Cultivate it. It'll take time. It doesn't happen overnight. I was an actor for many years before I got behind the camera.

When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch.

Men hate more steadily than they love.

You know, I've always wanted to do dramas.