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Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated. -- Michael J. Fox

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don't even know are available to us. -- Michael J. Fox

Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children
mothers and fathers of their friends, parents from school. You'll see. That's the way it was for Bill and me. It's one of the many gifts of parenting. -- Michael J. Fox

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it. -- Michael J. Fox

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it? -- Michael J. Fox

I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling. -- Michael J. Fox

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life. -- Michael J. Fox

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

Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count; always looking up. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. -- Michael J. Fox

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk. -- Michael J. Fox

The reflected version of myself, wet, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, "What are you smiling about?" but I already know the answer: "It just gets better from here". -- Michael J. Fox

When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- 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. -- Michael J. Fox

A creative mess is better than idle tidiness. -- Michael J. Fox

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass. -- Michael J. Fox

It seems to me that the quality of a moment in time is not always a reflection of the moment in and of itself - what happens before and what happens after are often what give it its savor. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality. -- Michael J. Fox

If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person. -- Michael J. Fox

'Why do you think it is ... ', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.' -- Michael J. Fox

If you have doubts about someone, lay on a couple of jokes. If he doesn't find anything funny, your radar should be screaming. Then I would say be patient with people who are negative, because they're really having a hard time. -- Michael J. Fox

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded. -- Michael J. Fox

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out." -- Michael J. Fox

I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me. -- Michael J. Fox

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting. -- Michael J. Fox

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

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets." -- Michael J. Fox

I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked. -- Michael J. Fox

Everybody in the world knew who I was before I knew who I was. -- Michael J. Fox

[My son] will have a fairly stable future. Not one where the schoolyard talk is whose father grossed $8 million on his last picture. -- Michael J. Fox

When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. -- Michael J. Fox

Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me ... having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it. -- Michael J. Fox

Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, its still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. Live and to learn. -- Michael J. Fox

Being in control of your own destiny is a myth - and wouldn't be half as much fun anyway. Pay attention to what's happening around you. Read the book before you see the movie. Remember, though you, alone, are responsible for your own happiness, it's still okay to feel responsible for someone else's. -- Michael J. Fox

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

After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going to do what I had been doing every day for the last few years now: just show up and do the best that I could do with whatever lay in front of me. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of. -- Michael J. Fox

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. -- Michael J. Fox

Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', I CAN handle the truth. -- Michael J. Fox

I urge you to be challenged and inspired by what you do not know. -- Michael J. Fox

There are no moments you have frozen in amber. It's moving, it's changing, so appreciate what's good about right now and be ready for what's next. -- Michael J. Fox

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall ... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am. -- Michael J. Fox

So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's just the joy, a passion for life, that I think has always been in my characters. Beyond that, I'm just grateful for it. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

Since I'm not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do. -- Michael J. Fox

I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. -- Michael J. Fox

I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. I'm not fearful of my condition or my future - but if someone is looking in my eyes for fear, then they see their own fear reflected back at them. -- Michael J. Fox

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope. -- Michael J. Fox

Hanging out with Sam or any two-year-old is basically one big suicide watch. Their mission is to find one new way after another of offing themselves - piss in an electric socket, lick a pit bull's nose, chase an ice cream truck into traffic - and your job as a parent is to step in before it happens. -- Michael J. Fox

Still, what's happened before and what may happen later can't be as important as what's happening now. -- Michael J. Fox

Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And then when you get there, the shine will have worn off whatever it is they wanted to share with you. -- Michael J. Fox

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective. -- Michael J. Fox

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job. -- Michael J. Fox

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me. -- Michael J. Fox

Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her. -- Michael J. Fox

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being. -- Michael J. Fox

I take the medication for myself so I can transact, not for anyone else. But I am aware that it is empowering for people to see what I do and, for the most part, people in the Parkinson's community are just really happy that Parkinson's is getting mentioned, and not in a pitying way. -- Michael J. Fox

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. -- Michael J. Fox

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded. -- Michael J. Fox

Among other things, don't start with the beer. -- Michael J. Fox

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

Pity is just another form of abuse. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result. -- Michael J. Fox

I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?" -- Michael J. Fox

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't look at myself as a leader. I do look at myself as part of a community. -- Michael J. Fox

Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us. -- Michael J. Fox

They have hopes and dreams that may echo or overlap your own. And there's no reason why you can't make room for them. But what's happening to you right now, precisely at this instant, belongs only to you. Own it ... This is your moment. Let someone else take the picture ... just smile. -- Michael J. Fox

If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't subscribe to any particular doctrine or ideology. I just think that there's kind of a good and bad, the good being life in its purest, happiest form, and the other being the darker side of existence. -- Michael J. Fox

Whatever the situation, just take it for what it is. You don't have to make it worse or better than it is. It just is what it is. Always deal with the honesty, the truth of what something is, and then you've got all kinds of choices. -- Michael J. Fox

Our challenges don't define us, our actions do, -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you've lived it twice. -- Michael J. Fox

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing. -- Michael J. Fox

The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me. -- Michael J. Fox

I'm sure there are many other Forrest Gump moments that I'm forgetting. I don't mention them as boasts, but rather as evidence of how ridiculously lucky I have been to have lived the life that I have. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't keep up with it all. But Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right? What a way to build a career. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it. -- Michael J. Fox

I began to long for the benign indifference of Robert Redford flossing his molars. -- Michael J. Fox

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary. -- Michael J. Fox

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things. -- Michael J. Fox

When I was 20, I would have taken a bullet in the head to never have to be 35. -- Michael J. Fox

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk. -- Michael J. Fox

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour. -- Michael J. Fox

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name. -- Michael J. Fox

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it. -- Michael J. Fox

It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could - literally - no longer keep still. -- Michael J. Fox

That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me. -- Michael J. Fox

By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career. -- Michael J. Fox

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me. -- Michael J. Fox

The 'Rescue Me' gig was a unique opportunity to play a character - a misanthropic, angry guy - who was so contrary to how people think of me. -- Michael J. Fox

Was an antidote to the self-consciousness that consumed me as an eccentric teenager in search of an identity. -- Michael J. Fox

Family is not an important thing, it is everything -- Michael J. Fox

Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career. -- Michael J. Fox

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party. -- Michael J. Fox

People want leadership, Mr. President, and in the absence of genuine leadership, they'll listen to anyone who steps up to the microphone. They want leadership. They're so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink the sand. -- Michael J. Fox

One of the great things about Parkinson's, in a superficial way, is it relieved me of vanity. I don't worry about what I look like, because it's literally out of my hands. But on a deeper level, it gives you a real humility, because you have to deal every day with the fact that you compromise. -- Michael J. Fox

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. -- Michael J. Fox

It may seem hard to believe, but it's catastrophe that offers the most promise for an even richer life. This is the gateway to the good stuff. In other words, you never truly know which way the wind is blowing until the shit hits the fan. -- Michael J. Fox

The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way. -- Michael J. Fox

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. -- Michael J. Fox

I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face. -- Michael J. Fox

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit ... bullshit ... my part ... blah, blah, blah ... my part ... bullshit ... -- Michael J. Fox

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot. -- Michael J. Fox

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice. -- Michael J. Fox

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution. -- Michael J. Fox

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want. -- Michael J. Fox

I wouldn't have minded living in Provence for a month or however long it took for me to learn to say, 'I've been attacked by a wild boar. Help me find my spleen! -- Michael J. Fox

I have so many things that I say to my kids, I just drive them crazy. -- Michael J. Fox

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all? -- Michael J. Fox

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'. -- Michael J. Fox

The only way for government to express the needs and desires of Americans is if Americans speak up and get involved. -- Michael J. Fox

As with any turning point or instance when a new road is chosen and an old one forsaken, there are consequences. -- Michael J. Fox

The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life -- Michael J. Fox

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient. -- Michael J. Fox

My whole life, meeting people is like a blind date, because I feel like they've already seen the video on me. -- Michael J. Fox

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul. -- Michael J. Fox

I might have skipped class, but I didn't miss any lessons. -- Michael J. Fox

My experience is to deal with things through humor. -- Michael J. Fox

You know what's cool? My kids think I'm ordinary. -- Michael J. Fox

Family is not an important thing, it's everything. -- Michael J. Fox

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today. -- Michael J. Fox

I'm also very proud to be a part of a trilogy of films that, if they do nothing else, allow people to check their problems at the door, sit down and have a good time. -- Michael J. Fox

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal. -- Michael J. Fox

Don't worry about him," Nana would assure them. "Michael will do more in his life than you can ever imagine. -- Michael J. Fox

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper. -- Michael J. Fox

As much as Parkinson's is about movement, the end stage is being frozen. So the more I let that happen, the more I'm gonna be stuck within that and unable to reverse it. -- Michael J. Fox

I think we all get our own bag of hammers. We all get our own Parkinson's. We all have our own thing. I think that we'll look at it through the filter of that experience, and we'll say, "Yeah, I need to laugh at my stuff, too." -- Michael J. Fox

I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested. -- Michael J. Fox

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that. -- Michael J. Fox

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. -- Michael J. Fox

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous. -- Michael J. Fox

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it saved my ass. -- Michael J. Fox

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities. -- Michael J. Fox

No matter how much money you have, you can lose it. -- Michael J. Fox

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made. -- Michael J. Fox

I definitely believe in a higher power. -- Michael J. Fox

I have a remarkably normal life. -- Michael J. Fox

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble. -- Michael J. Fox

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

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was. -- Michael J. Fox

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

Every failure I have considered my own, but every success has been shared. -- Michael J. Fox

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy. -- Michael J. Fox

My tattoo is that I don't have a tattoo. -- Michael J. Fox

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are. -- Michael J. Fox

Acceptance is the key to everything. -- Michael J. Fox

I think there's a god and I know it's not me. -- Michael J. Fox

Pity is a benign form of abuse. -- Michael J. Fox

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. -- Michael J. Fox

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone. -- Michael J. Fox

The biggest gift on Father's Day is if I can be with all my kids. -- Michael J. Fox

In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. -- Michael J. Fox

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts. -- Michael J. Fox

Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you. -- Michael J. Fox

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them. -- Michael J. Fox

Happiness is a decision. -- Michael J. Fox

If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? -- Michael J. Fox

What other people think of me is not my business. -- Michael J. Fox

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make. -- Michael J. Fox

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

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity. -- Michael J. Fox

Optimism is a cure for many things. -- Michael J. Fox

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish. -- Michael J. Fox