Michael J. Fox
42 quotes
Biography
"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."
"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."
"When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big."
"What other people think of me is not my business."
"When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return."
"I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like."
"The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned."
"I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life."
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business."
"What other people think about me is not my business."
"I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world."
"I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education."
"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."
"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."
"I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is."
"If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed."
"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."
"I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli."
"I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business."
"I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is."
"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."
"No, I got a GED in my 30s. My kids know that I never stop learning, and they know I love reading. I have books overflowing everywhere. I am current on today's events and I read the paper every day, and we talk about it, so they see that appetite."
"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."
"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."