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.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively.

There are things I've always wanted to do. Things I may not be able to do, but I never really ruled them out - like running a marathon. It's all a matter of timing for me. I suppose I could probably do it if I planned it out right with medication. 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.

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture.

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community.