In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.

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.

Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.

Your purpose is to remember your purpose

If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.

Friends??The people which are hypocrites and the people which you rought and hard you deal with them,

Good Americans when they die go to Paris.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the visual effects.

Anytime anyone compliments me on my figure, I'm wearing my Spanx undies.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.