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.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Nothing great happens without a great idea.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.

But Vegas is really my first home.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why?

Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.