As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.
If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you’re made of.
The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.
You know what’s cool? My kids think I’m ordinary.
I don’t look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.
The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.
Since I’m not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.
I don’t keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.
Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.
Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.
I think there’s a god and I know it’s not me.
If Spirituality is that you’re humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I’m a spiritual person.
Ironic that in order to do my life’s work, I had to quit my day job.
I might have skipped class, but I didn’t miss any lessons.
When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35.
I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson’s community are just really happy that Parkinson’s is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way.
I didn’t just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else’s method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson’s being underfunded.
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.
Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I’ve had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.
As much as Parkinson’s is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I’m gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it.