When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.

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.

before destroying, please create one same

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

Motivation is the single most important factor in any sort of success.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

When in doubt, go to the library.

Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.

Grant yourself permission to have all that life has to offer, and you will discover it has more to offer than you've ever imagined.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.