I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

Even if your body doesn't work the way it used to, the heart and the mind and the spirit are not diminished.

When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

Your body is not who you are. The mind and spirit transcend the body.