Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.

What I do is based on powers we all have inside us; the ability to endure; the ability to love, to carry on, to make the best of what we have -- and you don't have to be a 'Superman' to do it.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

You can do anything you think you can.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

On the wall of his rehabilitation room was a picture of the space shuttle blasting off, autographed by every astronaut now at NASA. On top of the picture it says, We found nothing is impossible. That should be our motto.

We all have many more abilities and internal resources than we know. My advice is that you don't need to break your neck to find out about them.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

I am a very lucky guy. I can testify before Congress. I can raise funds. I can raise awareness.

Some people are walking around with full use of their bodies and they're more paralyzed than I am.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

By reaching out, more comes back than you can possibly imagine.

You've got to give more than you take.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely.

I've still never had a dream that I'm disabled. Never.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.