You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.

Going out there in the water, it feels as if there's nothing wrong with me.

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

I just want to be myself and go for my own dreams and goals.

I seemed to still be alive. Which was unexpected. I'd feel good about it when I stopped retching my insides up.

Confidence is not "They will like me". Confidence is "I’ll be fine even if they don’t

Gossiping's part of witchcraft, ' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn’t think it was very good for my life.

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet

I didn't like some of the movies that were coming into me