If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.

A lot of times, when you have a disability, one of the things you deal with is other people's projections of what your experience is and their fear about it, and not seeing the experience you're having. There's nothing horrifying about it to me. It is what I deal with. It is my reality and my life, but it's not horrible.

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.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me.

The first part of my life was to be an actor and maybe have some success at that. Then [it was time] to find somebody to be in a relationship with and have a life that way. Because of Parkinson's, I had to change: How can I be of service here? Is there something unique to my situation that I can use to help people? I did not have the wherewithal to invent that. It just happened in front of me and had me join in.

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know.