I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best.

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

Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

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

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.

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.