Some of us were born to take risks.

The time for boring ethical discussions around disability is over. It's only through feelings of admiration, aspiration, curiosity and envy that we can move forward.

Forget what you know about disability.

I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world.

Dad got furious when we lied to him. No, Dad got furious then we lied to him.

Decisive is definite.

If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.

Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Under any sort of attack, keep cool. And if you must shoot, shoot with precision.

For every day the government is shut down, it should be that we don't have to pay income tax that day because they're not working.

Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.