Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving.

Both choices are painful but only one is therapeutic.

If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.