MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart

Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

The Lord has been with me throughout my life. He's never let me down.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!

Music is made particularly and principally to charm the spirit and the ear, and to enable us to pass our lives with a little sweetness amidst all the bitterness that we encounter here.

On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

I just think make hay while the sun shines really when you're an actor. When the opportunities present themselves you just better take them, otherwise you just don't know.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.