Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

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 think [Parkinson's] is Gothic nastiness. There's nothing on the surface that's horrible about someone with a shaky hand. There's nothing horrible about someone in their life saying, "God, I'm really tired of this shaky hand thing" and me saying, "Me, too." That's our reality. We have no control over it.

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.