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

My disability exists not because I use a wheelchair, but because the broader environment isn't accessible.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly disabled at all. I still have an impairment, and there are obviously some very restrictive things about that, but the impact of disability is less.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

I have a strong sense that I have to educate people about disability.

I used to think of myself in terms of who I'd be if I didn't have this pesky old disability.

I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

Disability has become a form of permanent welfare for a lot of folks. It's not that hard to prove a mental illness or mental issues or pain issues.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.