Life is about making your own happiness - and living by your own rules.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our disabilities, and I struggle with those as does everyone.

It's society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.

It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

Threatened men live long.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

To conquer the command in the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat.

I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.

No one expected a first year engineering student to build the perfect bridge.

National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they're - if they're competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.