Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

Its not our disabilities, its our abilities that count.

I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.

I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing.

I could make a difference.

I want to be a professional.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

I just want to be like other people that are normal.

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Who knew that listening to a guy sleep could be so much deeper than sleeping with a guy.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.