Quotes on Handicap

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.