Optimism is a cure for many things.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.

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.

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.