Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

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.

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.

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.

War's a racket. No doubt. But war is a racket for the politicians, not the soldiers.

Without courageous action, Hope is a Universal liar.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

I went to the bank and reviewed my savings, I found out I have all the money I'll ever need. If I die tomorrow.

Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history.

Laws are not made like lime-twigs or nets, to catch everything that toucheth them; but rather like sea-marks, to guide from shipwreck the ignorant passenger.

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.