For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

- Annette Funicello

Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare.

- Charles Duhigg

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

- Dick Clark

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

- Hugh Laurie

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

- Jerry Lewis

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

- Larry Flynt

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

- Mark Zupan

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

- Mark Zupan

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

- Robert Wyatt

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

- Stella Young

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

- Stella Young

I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

- Stephen Hawking

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.

- Stephen Hawking

Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.

- Steve Gleason

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

- Yayoi Kusama