It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
If you allow for the possibilities of something better, you move toward it instinctively. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
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… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
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… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“I saw, during the midterm campaign of 2006, how difficult it was for opponents of stem cell research to run against hope. And so it was in the 2008 presidential contest. This was hope in the collective, a definition that should always apply to the expression of a people's political will. Christopher Reeve had believed in a formula: optimism +… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
With Parkinson's, it's like you're in the middle of the street and you're stuck there in cement shoes and you know a bus is coming at you, but you don't know when. You think you can hear it rumbling, but you have a lot of time to think. And so you just don't live that moment of the bus hitting… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share
“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… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
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… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
