“Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:”

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

Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.

People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.

If left to their own devices a child will achieve.

Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.

A lot of my life is about will – having the will to prove what my body can do.

Life is about making your own happiness – and living by your own rules.

I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

It’s hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I’m on stilts!

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

Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.

I promise to look after everyone in the community, not just those who come to church, not just white people, not just the Christians.

Everyone shares the same fate.

But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.

Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

Built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.