With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting you until it happens. There's all kinds of room in that space.

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.