I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.

I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.

Deaf people can do anything, except hear.

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.

I have a great husband, great parents and in-laws, and I have help with a nanny. It's not easy, but there are others who do it every day and don't have a high-profile job as I do.

It was ability that mattered, not disability, which is a word I'm not crazy about using.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate.

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

Americans are following a stampede to the financial slaughterhouse. Let us stop following them and go in the other direction.

Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

The age of the book is almost gone.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

Every tree is an angel!

You've got to stay strong to be strong in tough times.

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.