Every year, once a year, in Maryland, I go for a week and overnight camp with about 50 to 60 kids with muscular dystrophy, all ages, seven to 21. And it is really fun. I have some great friends there and wonderful counselors.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I'm not sure who that is, but they really work hard.

The doctor said, 'He can't last a week.' And I did. And they said, 'There's no way this kid's going to last a month.' And I did. And so they said, 'Two years. He's not going to make it.' Two years. 'Five years. He can't do that.' I lived to be five years. 'He's never going to hit double digits.' And here I am, a new teenager.

...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all the way.