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

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

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

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

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.

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