"I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in."

"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."

"I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given."

"I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it."

"Childhood is a tricky business. Usually, something goes wrong."

"I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it."

"Business today consists in persuading crowds."

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."