True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

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.

Children picking up our bonesWill never know that these were onceAs quick as foxes on the hill

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

If it's not tested, it's broken.

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

The person who says, 'I'm enlightened' probably isn't.

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.