This was the first piece to the whole story—the beginning.

I had learned quickly that life doesn't always go the way I want it to, and that's okay. I still plod on.

The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.

With determination, it is possible to block out the negative things and enjoy the positive ones, despite the cons. Most importantly, it is possible to dance through everything pernicious.

The stares were annoying, but I knew they didn’t mean any harm. So, every morning, smiling at them became part of my routine, too.

I wished I could spend the rest of my life... being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.

I would like to play every day. Whether or not that happens, we'll see.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

I did not say history was bunk. It was bunk to me . . I did not need it very bad.

...Learn to give thanks for everything.

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Football is four 15-minute quarters. Plus timeouts and commercials.

Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.