A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be awesome. Awesome Ain't Easy.

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

Through adversity we find our heroes.

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

We all have a timeline. Most of us don't live like we have a timeline.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

Does anyone know if Lamborghini makes wheelchair vehicles? If not, I want to change that.

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

My life is not easy, but it's awesome.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

It's so ironic that life is all about love, yet we live most of it either searching, never finding, or messing it up.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Ability in man is an apt good, if it be applied to good ends.

I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

It is only through timidity that states are lost.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.