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.
If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.
If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, “If you didn’t know how old you were, how old would you think you were?” I started changing it in my mind right away to, “If you didn’t know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?”
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass.
My experience is to deal with things through humor.
Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.
Our challenges don’t define us, our actions do.
I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
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.
One of the great things about Parkinson’s, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don’t worry about what I look like, because it’s literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise.
My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they’ve already seen the video on me.
My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it’s my children’s birthright to be Jewish.
I see possibilities in everything. For everything that’s taken away, something of greater value has been given.
I happen to be a Parkinson’s patient. I’m not fearful of my condition or my future – but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.
The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don’t even know are available to us.
I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
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.