The more I accomplish, the more pressure I put on myself.

You're not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

I grew up not really thinking I had a disability. I grew up thinking I had different shoes.

The only disability in life is having a bad attitude

It's impossible to make everyone happy. Some will choose to see the negative. None is perfect but find a way of loving them perfectly!

There is a big difference between being good and being great.

I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

I think every athlete that’s just out here for the Olympics just does something to inspire those around them and inspire each other.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...

It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.

In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.

Lies are essential to humanity.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

Whoever loses the capability for inner silence, loses contact to himself and soon won't be able to think clearly any more.