The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite.

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls.