We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

I get pretty impatient with people who are able-bodied but are somehow paralyzed for other reasons.

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

We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from realising our potential, or embrace the fact that when we turn our attention away from ourselves, our potential is limitless.

I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis.

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.

If you don't have a vision, nothing happens.