I want to be a professional.

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 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.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces

Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.

If we have a food supply that we can't trust, that has enormous implications for the way we view government, for the way we trust business, and for our international trade relations.

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.