Michael J. Fox

"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."

"But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together it's how our differences work together."

"You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them."

"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."

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."

"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur."

"There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums."

"I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor."

"My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation."

"What other people think about me is not my business."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business."

"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business."

"Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass."

"I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best."

"I've dropped my pebble in the ocean, and hopefully; throughout the course of the day; millions of others will drop theirs in too. No single one of us knows which pebble causes the wave to crest, but each of us, quite rightly, believes that it might be ours; an act of faith."

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."

"Family is not an important thing, it is everything"

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything."

"And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance... One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father."