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

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.

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

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 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.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Live in your dreams, not your past.

The business of America is business.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

I always want to work with people that I can grow with.

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.