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You know that the world is a better place when people can come up to a severely disabled person and say: 'Well done. You are an inspiration.'

For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

I'm officially disabled, but I'm truly enabled because of my lack of limbs. My unique challenges have opened up unique opportunities to reach so many in need.

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

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

When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk or talk or do everything that people take for granted. Now, I take nothing for granted. But I find the real disability is people who can't find joy in life and are bitter.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.