I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

Our borders and our obstacles can only do two things: (1) stop us in our tracks, or (2) force us to get creative.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

We all have disabilities. Just some are more visible than others. We all have challenges, we all have obstacles

When we embrace the things that make us unique, our true and remarkable capabilities are revealed

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

You don't always have to have the most amazing story. It's learning to share the story you have that counts.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have.

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

The externals are simply so many props everything we need is within us.

Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

We've changed our reflections, but inside we're just a child.

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Governments don't control people like they used to.