Quotes by Michael J. Fox

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together."

"I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is."

"What other people think about me is not my business."

"When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch."

"Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk."

"I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given."

"I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary."

"The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are."

"I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it."

"I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us."

"Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble."

"You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him."

"No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite."

"If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time."

"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."

"I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education."

"I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business."

"I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life."

"Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it."

"In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings."

"I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make."

"Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them."

"Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not."

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

"I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor."

"The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am."

"I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it."

"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."

"If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed."

"The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded."

"Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all."

"I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in."

"I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility."

"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

"There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums."