Life is like a wrestling match- we struggle to fight but we never know that the only side that wins is the one with great love in it.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

My contention is that as long as you have other faculties-the emotional, psychological, intuitive faculties-you haven't lost yourself or even diminished yourself. Don't be ashamed when you're physically limited or dysfunctional; don't think that you're any less because of your condition. In fact, I feel I am even more myself than I was before I got this illness because I have been able to transcend many of the psychological and emotional limitations I had before I developed ALS.

For me, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them.

If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.