My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

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

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

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

[Constant curiousity leads to happiness:] I wake up curious every day and every day I'm surprised by something. And if I can just recognize that surprise every day and say, 'Oh, that's a new thing, that's a new gift that I got today that I didn't even know about yesterday,' it keeps me going. It keeps me more than going. It keeps me enthusiastic and grateful!

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.