“I feel that I’ve lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.”

I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.

The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.

I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.

Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren’t necessarily the most wonderful athletes.

You amputate part of a nose, that’s ‘enhancement’. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that’s ‘augmentation’. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it’s ‘disability’?

The only true disability is a crushed spirit

There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled.

Success isn’t winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can’t control all of them.

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.

I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.

I like that Pilates compromises the mind and body. It’s not just about being able to run around the block a few times.

Around the world, America’s influence has declined while this president [Barack Obama] has destroyed our military, our allies no longer trust us, and our adversaries no longer respect us.

Get his master’s in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around.

I’m just gonna make art myself. I have a lot of ideas of things I wanna do and really talented people and friends I’m around, so we decided to make our own thing and set out to do it.

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don’t sit around and call each other names. That’s what you can find on a third grade playground.

I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don’t try to get too big.

Once you are labeled ‘the best’ you want to stay up there, and you can’t do it by loafing around.

A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.

When I travel around the country, I see great companies with new ideas and a can-do attitude. But too often they are in hand-to-hand and pen-to-paper combat with officialdom.