Michael J. Fox

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

“Family is not an important thing. It's everything.”

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

“Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.”

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”

“Gratitude makes optimism sustainable.”

“Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down that way.”

“The only thing I'd trade my Parkinson's for is a cure.”

“For everything this disease has taken, something with greater value has been given.”

“I'm careful with my optimism. But I'm optimistic about my optimism.”

“I see every day as a new opportunity to laugh, to love, to work, to be happy.”

“The future is not a thing to be predicted. It is a thing to be created.”

“I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

“It's all about acceptance. When you can accept that you're not in control of everything, you can start to enjoy the ride.”

“The things that have been the most valuable to me I did not learn in school.”