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

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

— Michael J. Fox

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

— 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

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

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

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

— Michael J. Fox

The only unavailable choice was whether to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

— 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 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