She made us realize that human dignity is inalienable, and as long as there is still breath left in your body, there will always be something left to fight for.

Sooner or later we stop running, stop climbing, stop reaching for the sky. We stop pushing ourselves toward unattainable goals because common sense tells us that the only logical thing to do is push ourselves toward the attainable ones. If running through the world like kids on the playground is a kind of dream, then at a certain point we just stop dreaming.

My feet catch the roof like the arrester hook of a fighter jet coming into an aircraft carrier.

Freedom. The freedom to be, without limits, to the very best of your ability. The freedom to move without fear or reticence and live your life one leap at a time. The freedom to unbind yourself from all those paths that have been constructed for you by society and find your own way through the obstacles. The freedom to write your own physics, accepting nobody’s rules of gravity and space but your own.

once you start running and apply the mathematics of change, suddenly this insurmountable distance gets crushed under the curve of motion.