"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."

"A resilient spirit knows that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that the purest joy is found in giving without expectation."