Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career.

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

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 don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.