They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.