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

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 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.

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.

The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always more interesting and often illuminating to assumeexactly the opposite, and to see where that leads.

The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.