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

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.

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

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.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".

If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I wouldn't mind leaving myself behind if I could, but I don't know the way out.

Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.

Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" finally made it to the drive-in

No government in the Middle East is innocent. Wars make the stock market go up, so no one in America is innocent either, nor anyone anywhere where capitalism reigns.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.