“I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.”

“One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.”