You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

There is a very blurry line between the things we can't do and the things that we can.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

The key is to really have tremendously high expectations and to teach kids how to be self sufficient and confident and give them the skills that they need to succeed.

People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no evil left to fight in the world.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

That's been my forever love affair - Mexican food. But yeah it has to be something savory or cheesy. I'm not tempted by sweets.

If any performer has quality in his voice he can almost always be helped to develop all the other necessary attributes.

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.

For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.

Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center