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.

We put our values in the wrong things. And it leads to very disillusioned lives.

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

Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

What is it about silence that makes people uneasy?

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.